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Sphyraenidae
obtuse barracuda
Sphyraena obtusata
Pointed lower jaw projects
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Oceania
- Elongated
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Indian Ocean
Africa
Elongated
Largeobtuse barracuda is a fish found around Indo-Pacific. It inhabits estuaries and brackish water. The largest recorded length is 55 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Sphyraenidae
- Genus
- Sphyraena
- Maximum length
- 55 cm
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa to Samoa, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to Victoria, Australia. Migrated to eastern Mediterranean from the Red Sea via the Suez Canal (Ref. 5385 ). The exact range is uncertain because of confusion of this species with Sphyraena flavicauda (Ref. 9768 ).
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