🐟Great barracuda
큰꼬치고기(학명: Sphyraena barracuda)는 꼬치고기과에 속하는 대형 어종으로, 열대 기후가 나타나는 대서양 해안과 원양에 분포한다.. 최대 몸길이는 2.4m까지 자라며, 바다 생태계에서 포식자 역할을 맡고 있다. 특히 산호초 부근을 매우 선호한다.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.
- Body mass
- 24 kg
- Body length
- 1.4 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 14 years
Everything we know about the Great barracuda
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass24 kgrecord 50 kg · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length1.4 mrecord 2 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Maximum lifespan14 yearsrecord 18 years · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic level4.49FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.49 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humanstraumatogenicFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Volume l24 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Great barracuda yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderPerciformes
- ›familySphyraenidae
- ›genusSphyraena
- ›speciesSphyraena barracuda
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- familySphyraenidae
- genusSphyraena
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- familySphyraenidae
- genusSphyraena
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