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| SCIENTIFIC
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| COMMON
NAME: |
great barracuda |
| KINGDOM: |
Animalia |
| PHYLUM: |
Chordata |
| CLASS: |
Osteichthyes |
| ORDER: |
Perciformes |
| FAMILY: |
Sphyraenidae |
| GENUS
SPECIES: |
Sphyraena barracuda |
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| DESCRIPTION: |
Silver cylindrical body with dark blotches and lighter
side bands. Mouth is a prominent feature with its
obvious conical teeth and large underslung jaw.
Dorsal fins are widely separated. Slightly centrally
cleft (emarginate) caudal fin. |
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| SIZE: |
45.7-91.4 cm (1.5-3 ft) avg; 200 cm (6.6 ft) max
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| WEIGHT: |
50 kg (110.2 lbs) max |
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| DIET: |
Fish, cephalopods, and occasionally shrimp |
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| INCUBATION: |
Species exhibits dioecism. Fertilization is external.
Species is open water/substratum egg scatterer.
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| SEXUAL
MATURITY: |
66 cm; 2-4 years |
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| RANGE: |
Western Atlantic: Massachusetts and Bermuda to Caribbean
and Brazil
Eastern Atlantic: Sierra Leone to St. Paul's Rocks
and Sao Tome Island
Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa to Hawaii;
throughout Micronesia |
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| HABITAT: |
0-100 meters in tropical & sub-tropical marine
and estuarine waters |
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| POPULATION: |
GLOBAL |
No
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| STATUS: |
IUCN |
Not listed |
| CITES |
Not listed |
| USFWS |
Not
listed |
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| Bond,
Carl E. Biology of Fishes - Second Edition.
Saunders College Publishing, 1996. |
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Humann, Paul. Reef Fish Identification - Florida,
Caribbean, Bahamas. New World Publications,
Inc., 1992. |
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www.fishbase.org
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