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sword

MathKnight, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons / https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Swordfish-0046.jpg

IMAGE INFORMATION

The Head and Beak of the Sword-Fish

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

January 23, 1792

Primary Source Reference:

Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 7 Feb 1791

Additional Source Text:

Also listed in New-York Daily Gazette, 28 Jan 1792 and Argus (Boston), 10 Feb 1792; General Advertiser (Philadelphia), 20 Jan 1792

Notes:

There is only a single species of swordfish, Xiphias gladius, pictured here.

 

Specimen Type:

Individual parts

Peale's Common Name:

Swordfish

Current Common Name:

Swordfish

Current Scientific Name

Xiphias gladius