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Barracudas depend heavily on their eyesight when they are out hunting. When hunting, they tend to notice everything that has an unusual color, reflection, or movement. Once a barracuda targets an intended prey item, its long tail and matching anal and dorsal fins enable it to move with swift bursts of speed to attack its prey before it can escape.
The Pacific barracuda is found in the Northeast Pacific Ocean, typically offshore of the U.S. West Coast.While it is usually considered a pelagic species, and can could be found as far north as southern Alaska, they are most frequently found along the coast of California extending down to the southern tip of Baja California Sur, Guadalupe Island and near the mouth of the Gulf of California.
The great barracuda is present in tropical to warm temperate waters, in subtropical parts of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Primarily found in oceans near the equator, these Great Barracuda find refuge in mangrove areas to deep reefs, and seagrass beds, with a lower depth limit of 110 meters (360 ft). [17]
Sphyraena ensis, commonly known as the Mexican barracuda or simply barracuda, is a species of barracuda that inhabits the continental shelf of the Eastern Pacific from southern California to northern Chile. [1] They have a long cylindrical body and are silvery in color, with a protruding lower jaw containing many sharp teeth of unequal size. [2]
The pickhandle barracuda can be found in many locations throughout the Pacific Ocean. [4] They can usually be found in schools swimming in the tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean, particularly around coral reefs. [2] However, during the night the pickhandle barracuda begin to hunt. [2] These fish can be found at many depths ranging from 2 ...
The Australian barracuda is greenish on the back, silvery on flanks which fades to white on the belly with a greenish-yellow tail. It has the typical fusiform shape of a barracuda, but it is slimmer than most other species of Sphyraena with a conical snout and a protruding lower jaw, the jaws are lined with fang like teeth and the upper jaw is non-protracting.
The yellowtail barracuda is found from the Red Sea east through the Indian and Pacific Oceans to Samoa, its northern limit is the Ryukyu Islands and its southern is on the Great Barrier Reef. [3] First recorded in the Mediterranean Sea off Israel in 1991, [4] it is now extending to the whole eastern Basin.
Unidentified fish remains were found in nearly 20% of the specimens sampled. The predatory behaviour of S. viridensis was observed in the same study; they were found to be active pursuit predators of fish, with one or many barracudas hunting together, either singling out lone prey or attacking shoals of prey fish. The pursuit was rapid and was ...