Gran barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda), Yeda, Arabia Saudita, 2025 05 20, DD 118🐟

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SpeciesPerciformesSphyraenidae
Fish

🐟Great barracuda

Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards, 1771)

De grote barracuda of grote zeesnoek (Sphyraena barracuda) is een straalvinnige vis uit de familie van de barracuda's (Sphyraenidae).

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Also called
Barracuda, Barra, Commerson's sea pike, Great Barra Cuda, Short barracuda, Striped Seapike
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Great barracuda

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
24 kgrecord 50 kg Β· FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge Β· AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) Β· CC BY 3.0

Body length
1.4 mrecord 2 m Β· FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase Β· v25.04 Β· CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
14 yearsrecord 18 years Β· FishBase
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge Β· AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) Β· CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
4.49
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Source: FishBase Β· v25.04, estimate table Β· CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.49 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
traumatogenic
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Volume l
24 Laverage
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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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. β€ΊphylumChordata
  3. β€ΊorderPerciformes
  4. β€ΊfamilySphyraenidae
  5. β€ΊgenusSphyraena
  6. β€ΊspeciesSphyraena barracuda
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish Β· Actinopterygii
  2. orderAcanthomorphata
  3. familySphyraenidae
  4. genusSphyraena
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish Β· Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderAcanthomorphata
  10. familySphyraenidae
  11. genusSphyraena
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巴拉金播鱼 (zh), Sphyraena barracuda (es), Sphyraena barracuda (fr), Grote barracuda (nl), Ψ¨Ψ±ΩƒΩˆΨ―Ψ© ΩƒΨ¨ΩŠΨ±Ψ© (ar), Großer Barrakuda (de) … and 24 more languages
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