Yellowtail barracuda

Yellowtail barracuda

Taxobox | name = Yellowtail barracuda


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Sphyraenidae
genus = "Sphyraena"
species = "S. flavicauda"
binomial = "Sphyraena flavicauda"
binomial_authority = Rüppell, 1838

The yellowtail barracuda, "Sphyraena flavicauda", a barracuda of the family Sphyraenidae, is found in Indo-West Pacific oceans. Its length is up to 60 cm.

Body has two brown or brownish yellow longitudinal stripes which may disappear in old specimens; caudal fin yellowish. It is occasionally confused with the barracuda species "Sphyraena obtusata" but is more elongated.

The yellowtail barracuda is a schooling fish and feeds almost exclusively on other fish.

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