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BARRACUDA’S - SPHYRAENIDAE

Info-Barracuda

Around twenty different species of barracuda's swim in our seas and oceans. These long and streamlined fish are known predators with a long beak and sharp teeth. There have been reported attacks on people from some of the larger solitary-living specimen in the Caribbean sea, but no reports ever from the Indian Ocean areas. Do watch out when swimming with shiny objects when close to large solitary Barracudas though. Bad visibility or even the reflection of the sun on shiny objects may make them to think it's a shiny silvery fish which they may like to eat. The bigger barracuda species patrol reef-edges and shallow lagoons where they feed on rabbitfish, snappers and mackerel. The smaller species mainly feed on small fish. Young barracuda live pelagic and swim in schools. Their life on the reef starts when they reach approximately thirty centimeters in length. Often very big schools are observed swimming in huge funnel-shaped formations. We have no information about their reproduction.

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