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Actinopteri (ray-finned fishes) > Carangaria/misc (Various families in series Carangaria) > Sphyraenidae (Barracudas)
Etymology: Sphyraena: Greek, sphyraina, -es = the name of a fish (Ref. 45335). More on author: Linnaeus.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; pelagic-neritic; depth range - 100 m (Ref. 27000), usually - 50 m (Ref. 6949). Subtropical; 0°C - ; 48°N - 18°S, 31°W - 37°E

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Eastern Atlantic: Bay of Biscay to Mossamedes, Angola, including the Mediterranean and Black Sea, Canary Islands, and Azores. Western Atlantic: Bermuda and Brazil.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 165 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 3397); common length : 60.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 11101); max. published weight: 3.6 kg (Ref. 40637)

Found in coastal and offshore waters (Ref. 2683). Feeds mostly on fish, less often on cephalopods and crustaceans (Ref. 11101).

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De Sylva, D.P., 1990. Sphyraenidae. p. 860-864. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 6949)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 124695)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 14 July 2014

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: minor commercial; gamefish: yes

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 14.3 - 21.9, mean 18.3 °C (based on 126 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82805): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00759 (0.00613 - 0.00938), b=2.92 (2.88 - 2.96), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 4.0 ±0.51 se; based on food items.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K= 0.123; Tmax >8 yrs).

Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Moderate to high vulnerability (49 of 100) .

Price category (Ref. 80766): Medium.

Nutrients (Ref. 124155): Calcium = 29.6 [12.9, 71.4] mg/100g ; Iron = 0.885 [0.407, 3.805] mg/100g ; Protein = 20.8 [19.0, 22.4] % ; Omega3 = 0.261 [0.115, 0.601] g/100g ; Selenium = 33.7 [13.9, 91.9] μg/100g ; VitaminA = 1.93 [0.35, 13.81] μg/100g ; Zinc = 0.395 [0.235, 0.717] mg/100g (wet weight);

Sphyraena sphyraena (Linnaeus, 1758)