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Published: 2013-02-25 13:57:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 3269; Favourites: 95; Downloads: 1
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Description Striped Marlin, a smaller member of spearfish fammily. It's found in the tropical and subtropical indopacific open seas, usually hunting sardines or mackerel. Although it's not the largest in his fammily, reaching 3,5 m aprox, it's a valued game fish. I painted this as present for a friend, and I choosed this species among others because it's impressive colors.

Hope you like it.
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acepredator [2015-05-30 19:31:27 +0000 UTC]

Bony fish can be magnificent apex predators in their own right.

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TopGon In reply to acepredator [2015-06-08 13:39:28 +0000 UTC]

No doubt about it

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acepredator In reply to TopGon [2015-06-08 14:17:33 +0000 UTC]

People always look to the sharks...they don't realize a lot of what they consider shark food are actually competing apex predators!

Like tuna for example. Tuna deserve a lot more respect in having mastered the world's most food-poor environment and being apex predators that feed other top-level hunters that cannot access prey.

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namu-the-orca [2014-02-17 13:37:49 +0000 UTC]

Marlins, sailfish.. I love 'em all for their amazing speed and gorgeous colours. Really great job on this impressive species; you certainly did it and its markings justice!

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TopGon In reply to namu-the-orca [2014-04-11 17:41:57 +0000 UTC]

Thank you a lot I love them too. Spearfish are awesome. It's very sad that they get more and more rare. Magnificent fish that should be protected at all costs.

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namu-the-orca In reply to TopGon [2014-04-12 14:18:51 +0000 UTC]

It's sad to see basically all fish species becoming rare these days - it's so hard to find the really big fish, and if they're found it's often by someone who kills them They should indeed be protected, but somehow I don't see that happening any time soon..

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TopGon In reply to namu-the-orca [2014-04-15 13:21:48 +0000 UTC]

Yeah and it's worse because many people (including governments) think about protecting fish only by creating some "too small to be effective" fishing banned areas. But they don't realize that all economical important species are in fact great migrators and it's protection can't be restricted to a small spot in somewhere. In addition there is the pollution and climatic change problems. That affect dramatically to them by many direct ways.

Very sad. You sayd it.

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namu-the-orca In reply to TopGon [2014-04-26 12:16:35 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, it's just such a huge problem - people aren't exactly ready to deal with fixing the ocean, though they've created endless problems... So many people are unaware of how bad things are concerning all fish species - the ocean is practically dead compared to how it used to be before large-scale fishing. It's really mind-boggling. And while the fish continue to die, we continue to fish. Urgh

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TopGon In reply to namu-the-orca [2014-04-27 18:47:01 +0000 UTC]

Yeah. SHIT.

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Betta132 [2014-01-18 06:36:09 +0000 UTC]

This is actually a real fish species? Wow!
And I love the painting, great work!

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TopGon In reply to Betta132 [2014-02-01 15:59:18 +0000 UTC]

Yes, it's real. It's one of the most catched marlins worldwide.

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Cypselurus [2013-10-20 10:34:27 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful!  

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TopGon In reply to Cypselurus [2013-10-29 23:53:53 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!

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Cypselurus In reply to TopGon [2013-10-30 05:43:14 +0000 UTC]

No prob~ ^^

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omnicogni [2013-05-16 22:07:30 +0000 UTC]

Another great illustration Gonzalo!

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TopGon In reply to omnicogni [2013-05-21 09:43:10 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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Zimices [2013-03-01 01:25:04 +0000 UTC]

Me encanta, realmente no sabía que había marlines con ese diseño tan interesante

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TopGon In reply to Zimices [2013-03-01 09:15:09 +0000 UTC]

Yo tampoco hasta que vi uno de esos documentales sobre animales pelágicos. Son espectaculares. En Youtube hay varios vídeos.

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zappythedrodo [2013-02-26 14:22:52 +0000 UTC]

this is a beautiful fish, you did a good job in illustrating it for everyone to see

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TopGon In reply to zappythedrodo [2013-02-26 15:20:24 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much. I hope you enjoy seeing it.

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gallantmon8 [2013-02-25 20:20:18 +0000 UTC]

For a second I thought it was a prehistoric species lol

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TopGon In reply to gallantmon8 [2013-02-26 09:00:22 +0000 UTC]

Well I can imagine a Xiphactinus audax the same way...

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gallantmon8 In reply to TopGon [2013-02-28 23:17:14 +0000 UTC]

Iv'e not really heard of this subspecies before, where in the ocean is it usually found?

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TopGon In reply to gallantmon8 [2013-03-01 09:23:24 +0000 UTC]

It's not a subspecies, it's a former species. And now I noticed that actually it's valid name is Kajikia audax.

*Extreacted from fishbase.org

"Indo-Pacific: tropical, subtropical and temperate waters. Highly migratory species, Annex I of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea (Ref. 26139). The distribution in the Pacific Ocean is unique among billfishes and tunas in that it forms a horseshoe-shaped pattern from the northwest Pacific through the eastern Pacific to the southwest Pacific (Ref. 30443). In the Indian Ocean, fish are more densely distributed in equatorial regions with higher concentrations off eastern Africa, in the western Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and off northwestern Australia (Ref. 30444)."

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TopGon [2013-02-25 14:49:19 +0000 UTC]

Hay 5 caballas pintadas xD, y no veas lo que me costó fijar las rayas. Tú las ves y piensas "bah, razas negras sobre fondo verde, chupao"; pero luego cuestan que no veas. No entiendo muy bien lo de restarle color... En las fotos de referencia es difícil discernir qué es iridiscencia y qué artefactos del balance de blancos de la propia fotografía.

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Last-Alexiel [2013-02-25 14:39:03 +0000 UTC]

Una pasada de bicho , aunque creo que le has "restado" color, sólo por las iridiscencias de la dorsal, porque de por sí es ya colorido xD.

Pobres caballas, con lo que me gustan... ¿Tienes alguna pintada?

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