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FishBase Names Scientific source: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Supported by National Biological Information Infrastructure National Science Foundation go to Discover Life's Facebook group Following modified from FishBase    Top | See original http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Sphyraena&speciesname=afra ---> http://192.134.151.83/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Sphyraena&speciesname=afra http://192.134.151.83/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Sphyraena&speciesname=afra ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Sphyraena&speciesname=afra https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Sphyraena&speciesname=afra ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/summary/Sphyraena-afra.html You can sponsor this page Common name (e.g. trout) contains begins with begins with ends with is Genus + Species (e.g. Gadus morhua) About this page More Info Plus d'info Mais info Languages Arabic Bahasa/Malay Bangla Chinese(Si) Chinese(Tr) Deutsch English Español Farsi Français Greek Hindi Italiano Japanese Lao Nederlands Português(Br) Português(Pt) Russian Swedish Thai Vietnamese User feedbacks Comments &   Corrections Fish Forum Guest Book Facebook Citation Uploads Attach website Upload photo Upload video Upload   references Fish Watcher Related species Species in    Sphyraena Species in    Sphyraenidae - Classification - Sphyraenidae Carangaria/misc Teleostei Chordata Animalia Sphyraena afra Peters , 1844 Guinean barracuda Add your observation in Fish Watcher Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050 This map was computer-generated and has not yet been reviewed. Sphyraena afra   AquaMaps   Data sources: GBIF OBIS Upload your photos  and  videos Pictures | Google image Sphyraena afra Picture by JJPhoto Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes( genus , species ) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa Teleostei (teleosts) > Carangaria/misc (Various families in series Carangaria) > Sphyraenidae (Barracudas) Etymology: Sphyraena: Greek, sphyraina, -es = the name of a fish (Ref. 45335 ) . More on author: Peters . Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology Marine; brackish; pelagic-neritic; depth range 0 - 75 m (Ref. 6949 ). Tropical; 21°N - 23°S, 19°W - 15°E Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri Eastern Atlantic: Senegal to Namibia (Ref. 57401 ). Also reported from Mauritania (Ref. 5377 ). Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age Maturity: L m 87.0   range ? - ? cm Max length : 205 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 57401 ); common length : 100.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 26999 ); max. published weight: 50.0 kg (Ref. 57401 ) Short description Morphology | Morphometrics Dorsal spines (total): 6; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9; Anal spines : 2; Anal soft rays : 9. Diagnosis: 122-140 (generally 125-132) scales in lateral line (Ref. 57401 ). Sides marked with about 20 dark, largely backwards open chevrons (Ref. 57401 ), which become less distinct in large specimens (Ref. 5491 ). Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic) Commonly enters lagoons and estuaries (Ref. 4339 , 57401 ). Found on the continental shelf (Ref. 36731 ). Feeds on fish and shrimps (Ref. 28587 ). Never reported to be ciguatoxic. Good food and recreational value. Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators Daget, J. , 2003. Sphyraenidae. p. 612-615 In C. Lévêque, D. Paugy and G.G. Teugels (eds.) Faune des poissons d'eaux douce et saumâtres de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, Tome 2. Coll. Faune et Flore tropicales 40. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, Museum National d'Histoire Naturalle, Paris, France and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris, France. 815 p. (Ref. 57401 ) IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435 )   Least Concern (LC)  ; Date assessed: 14 July 2014 CITES Not Evaluated CMS (Ref. 116361 ) Not Evaluated Threat to humans   Traumatogenic (Ref. 4537 ) Human uses Fisheries: commercial FAO - Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us More information Countries FAO areas Ecosystems Occurrences Introductions Stocks Ecology Diet Food items Food consumption Ration Common names Synonyms Metabolism Predators Ecotoxicology Reproduction Maturity Spawning Spawning aggregation Fecundity Eggs Egg development Age/Size Growth Length-weight Length-length Length-frequencies Morphometrics Morphology Larvae Larval dynamics Recruitment Abundance BRUVS References Aquaculture Aquaculture profile Strains Genetics Electrophoreses Heritability Diseases Processing Nutrients Mass conversion Collaborators Pictures Stamps, Coins Misc. Sounds Ciguatera Speed Swim. type Gill area Otoliths Brains Vision Tools E-book | Field guide | Identification keys | Length-frequency wizard | Life-history tool | Point map | Classification Tree | Catch-MSY | Special reports Check for Aquarium maintenance | Check for Species Fact Sheets | Check for Aquaculture Fact Sheets Download XML Summary page | Point data | Common names | Photos Internet sources AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes : genus , species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome , nucleotide | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go , Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoobank | Zoological Record Estimates based on models Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201 ): 22.6 - 28, mean 26.3 °C (based on 84 cells). Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804 ):  PD 50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00724 (0.00435 - 0.01206), b=2.89 (2.75 - 3.03), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245 ). Trophic level (Ref. 69278 ):  4.1   ±0.70 se; based on food items. Resilience (Ref. 120179 ):  Very Low, minimum population doubling time more than 14 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153 ):  Very high vulnerability (90 of 100). Price category (Ref. 80766 ):   Medium . Nutrients (Ref. 124155 ):  Calcium = 25.1 [11.3, 65.4] mg/100g; Iron = 0.451 [0.213, 0.973] mg/100g; Protein = 20.1 [18.1, 21.8] %; Omega3 = 0.134 [0.058, 0.318] g/100g; Selenium = 55.4 [22.0, 149.4] μg/100g; VitaminA = 5.33 [1.07, 29.15] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.567 [0.349, 0.982] mg/100g (wet weight); Comments & Corrections Back to Search Random Species Back to Top Accessed through: Not available FishBase mirror site : localhost Page last modified by : mrius-barile - 20 July 2016 Fatal error : Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function checkEcotox(), 1 passed in /var/www/html/summary/speciessummary.php on line 2304 and exactly 3 expected in /var/www/html/includes/speciessummary.lib.php:2579 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/summary/speciessummary.php(2304): checkEcotox() #1 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/includes/speciessummary.lib.php on line 2579 Updated: 2024-04-23 06:37:14 gmt FishBase | Search | All Living Things | Top © Designed by The Polistes Corporation