WoRMS taxon details
Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards, 1771)
AphiaID: 345843
AphiaID: 345843
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Sphyraenidae (Family) > Sphyraena (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Sphyraena Artedi, 1793 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Agrioposphyraena barracuda (Walbaum, 1792) Esox barracuda Edwards, 1771 Esox barracuda Walbaum, 1792 Sphyraena baracuda (Walbaum, 1792) (misspelling) 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) (misspelling) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] from synonym: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Robins, C.R., G.C. Ray, J. Douglass and R. Freund. 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 354 p. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Smith, J.L.B. & M.M. Smith (1963). The fishes of Seychelles. Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University. Grahamstown. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Randall, J.E. (1992). Red Sea Reef Fishes. Immel Publishing. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Djibouti (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gazi Bay [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mtwapa [details] North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] South Africa (country) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Ungama Bay [details] Western Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (92 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (105 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (USA), Bermuda, and throughout the Caribbean Sea to Brazil [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:345843 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards, 1771). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=345843 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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