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Sphyraena barracuda Great Barracuda, Barra, Barracuda, Commerson's Sea Pike, Great Barra Cuda, Short Barracuda, Striped Seapike

Sphyraena barracudais commonly referred to as Great Barracuda, Barra, Barracuda, Commerson's Sea Pike, Great Barra Cuda, Short Barracuda, Striped Seapike. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
3178 
AphiaID:
345843 
Scientific:
Sphyraena barracuda 
German:
Großer Barrakuda 
English:
Great Barracuda, Barra, Barracuda, Commerson's Sea Pike, Great Barra Cuda, Short Barracuda, Striped Seapike 
Category:
Barracudas 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Sphyraenidae (Family) > Sphyraena (Genus) > barracuda (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Edwards, ), 1771 
Occurrence:
Sudan, Barbados, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Guadeloupe, Djibouti, Eritrea, Suriname, Ghana, Benin, Kuwait, Cocos Island (Costa Rica), Sint Eustatius and Saba, (the) Maldives, American Samoa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Austral Islands, Australia, Bahrain, Bali, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Christmas Islands, Circumtropic, Columbia, Comores, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Flores, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gambier Islands, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Howland Island, Iceland, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Israel, Jamaica, Java, Johnston Atoll, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Line Islands, Lombok, Madagascar, Madeira, Malaysia, Marquesas Islands, Marschall Islands, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico (East Pacific), Micronesia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific (Ocean), Northern Mariana Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Paracel-Islands, Philippines, Phoenix Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto Rico, Quatar, Queensland (Australia), Raja Amat, Red Sea, Réunion , Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé e Principé, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South America, South Atlantic, South-Africa, South-Pazific, Spratly Islands, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Bahamas, The Bangai Archipelago, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Netherlands Antilles, the Seychelles, the Society Islands, Timor, Togean Islands, Togo, Tokelau, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuamoto Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wake Atoll, Wallis and Futuna, West Africa, West-Atlantic Ocean, Western Indian Ocean, Western Pacific Ocean, Yemen 
Sea depth:
1 - 100 Meter 
Size:
up to 78.74" (200 cm) 
Weight:
50 kg 
Temperature:
64.4 °F - 80.6 °F (18°C - 27°C) 
Food:
Carnivore, Coralfish of all kind, Fish (little fishes), Predatory, Sepia, Shrimps 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Least concern (LC)  
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2023-04-27 23:03:49 

Info

(Edwards, 1771)

Synonyms:
Agrioposphyraena barracuda (Walbaum, 1792)
Esox barracuda Edwards, 1771
Esox barracuda Walbaum, 1792
Sphyraena baracuda (Walbaum, 1792)
Sphyraena barracuda (Walbaum, 1792)
Sphyraena becuna Lacepède, 1803
Sphyraena commersonii Cuvier, 1829
Sphyraena dussumieri Valenciennes, 1831
Sphyraena picuda Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Sphyraena sphyraena picuda Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Syphyraena barracuda (Walbaum, 1792)

Scientific paper

  1. Antioxidant Activity and Amino Acid Profiling of Protein Hydrolysates from the Skin of Sphyraena barracuda and Lepturacanthus savala, Nazeer, R. A.; Deeptha, R. , 2013
  2. Is the Great Barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) a reef fish or a pelagic fish? The phylogeographic perspective, Toby S. Daly-Engel, John E. Randall, Brian W. Bowen, 2012
  3. Larval ecology of the great barracuda,Sphyraena barracuda, and other sphyraenids in the Straits of Florida, E. K. D’Alessandro; S. Sponaugle; J. K. Llopiz; R. K. Cowen, 2011
  4. Spatial ecology and residency patterns of adult great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) in coastal waters of The Bahamas, Amanda C. O’Toole; Andy J. Danylchuk; Tony L. Goldberg; Cory D. Suski; David P. Philipp; Edd Brooks; Steven J. Cooke, 2011
  5. Radical Scavenging Activity of Seela (Sphyraena barracuda)and Ribbon Fish (Lepturacanthus savala)Backbone Protein Hydrolysates, R. A. Nazeer; R. Deeptha; R. Jaiganesh; N. S. Sampathkumar; Shabeena Yousuf Naqash, 2011
  6. Behavioral Observations of Lilliputian Piscivores: Young-of-year Sphyraena barracuda at Offshore Sub-tropical Reefs (NW Atlantic Ocean), Peter J. Auster, David Grenda, Jeff Godfrey, Eric Heupel, Steven Auscavitch and Joseph Mangiafico, 2011
  7. Consequences of catch-and-release angling on the physiological status, injury, and immediate mortality of great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) in The Bahamas, O'Toole, A. C.; Danylchuk, A. J.; Suski, C. D.; Cooke, S. J. , 2010
  8. Rub and move: barracudas ( Sphyraena barracuda) use swimming turtles as scraping surfaces in the south-western Atlantic, Grossman, Alice; Sazima, Cristina; Sazima, Ivan , 2009
  9. Functional morphology of bite mechanics in the great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda), Justin R. Grubich; Aaron N. Rice; Mark W. Westneat, 2008
  10. A comparison of strike and prey capture kinematics of three species of piscivorous fishes: Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus), redfin needlefish (Strongylura notata), and great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda), Heather T. Porter; Philip J. Motta, 2004
  11. Effect of Delayed Icing on the Microbiological Quality of Tropical Fish: Barracudas (Sphyraena barracuda), G. Jeyasekaran; P. Ganesan; K. Maheswari; R. Jeya Shakila; D. Sukumar, 2004
  12. Identification of slow and fast-acting toxins in a highly ciguatoxic barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) by HPLC/MS and radiolabelled ligand binding, Ivannah Pottier; Brett Hamilton; Alun Jones; Richard J Lewis; Jean Paul Vernoux, 2003
  13. Heavy metals, lipid peroxidation, and ciguatera toxicity in the liver of the caribbean barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda), J. Matta; M. Milad; R. Manger; T. Tosteson, 1999
  14. Organochlorine pesticides in the tissues of the great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) (Waldbaum), Wm. B. Deichmann; D. A. Cubit; W. E. MacDonald; A. G. Beasley, 1972
  15. An Anomalous Sphyraena barracuda, William F. Hettler, Jr., 1972
  16. Systematics and life history of the great barracuda Sphyraena barracuda (Walbaum): DeSylva, D. P. (Inst. Marine Sci., Univ. of Miami, Miami, Florida). Studies in Tropical Oceanography, No. 1, 179 p., 1963, P.R.S., 1968
  17. Systematics and Life History of the Great Barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda (Walbaum)by Donald P. de Sylva, Review by: F. Williams, 1966

External links

  1. FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Sphyraena barracuda (Barracuda) - Kaviang, Papua New Guinea,2006
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Copyright Wolfram Sander, Maria La Gorda,Cuba
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Copyright Wolfram Sander, Maria La Gorda,Cuba
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Copyright Wolfram Sander, Maria La Gorda,Cuba
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