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Sphyraena afra

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Foto: Gambia, West-Afrika, Ost-Atlantik
// 15.01.2000 // 3 Kilo
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lexID:
12967 
AphiaID:
273977 
Scientific:
Sphyraena afra 
German:
Guinea-Barrakuda 
English:
Guinean Barracuda 
Category:
 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Sphyraenidae (Family) > Sphyraena (Genus) > afra (Species) 
Initial determination:
Peters, 1844 
Occurrence:
Namibia, Togo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Liberia, Senegal, Gabon, Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, The Gulf of Guinea, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Congo, São Tomé e Principé, the Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Angola 
Sea depth:
0 - 75 Meter 
Size:
100 cm - 205 cm 
Weight:
50 kg 
Temperature:
22,6°C - 28°C 
Food:
Zoobenthos, Predatory, Nekton, Rejer, Små fisk 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Least concern (LC)  
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2020-04-21 20:15:01 

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Synonyms:
Sphyraena hupferi Fischer, 1885
Sphyraena piscatorum Cadenat, 1964

External links

  1. FishBase (multi)
  2. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi)
  3. Population parameters of barracuda, Sphyraena afra (Family: Sphyraenidae) from coastal waters of Lagos State, Nigeria (en)
  4. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en)

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