Editing Marlin (section)

== Taxonomy ==
The family name Istiophoridae comes from the genus ''[[Istiophorus]]'' which first placed the species ''[[Istiophorus platypterus]]'' by [[George Kearsley Shaw]] in 1792 from the Greek word {{lang|el|ἱστίον}} ''istion'' meaning "[[sail]]" that describes the shape of the species's dorsal fins.<ref name="EtyFish">{{cite web |last=Scharpf  |first= Christopher |date=13 September 2023 |url= http://www.etyfish.org/carangiformes1/ | title= Order CARANGIFORMES |work=The ETYFish Project |pages=1–19 |access-date=18 December 2023}}</ref>{{rp|6}}