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Sphyraenidae
great barracuda
Sphyraena barracuda
Sphyraenid Fish from the Niger Basin
- Yellow
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Elongated
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Tropical fish
Yellow
Tropical
Africa
Elongated
Largegreat barracuda is known from Indo-Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Sphyraenidae
- Genus
- Sphyraena
- Maximum length
- 200 cm
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and east coast of Africa to Hawaii and the Marquesas and Tuamoto islands. Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (USA), Bermuda, and throughout the Caribbean Sea to Brazil (Ref. 9626 ). Eastern Atlantic: Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal (Ref. 6949 ), Mauritania (Ref. 5377 ), St. Paul's Rocks (Ref. 13121 ), and São Tomé Island (Ref. 34088 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
