Sphyraena picudilla

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• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,007 meters (0 to -16,427 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Poey, F. Memorias sobre la historia natural de la isla de Cuba, acompañadas de sumarios latinos y extractos en francés. Vol. II. Imprenta de Barcina, Habana, Cuba., 1860.

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 15-Feb-1998

Similar Species

Members of the genus Sphyraena

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 28 species and subspecies in this genus:

S. acus (California Needelefish) · S. acutipinnis (Pointed Finned Sea Pike) · S. afra (Guinean Barracuda) · S. argentea (Pacific Barracuda (FB)) · S. barracuda (Commerson's Sea Pike) · S. borealis (Northern Barracuda) · S. chrysotaenia (Green-And-Gold Barracuda) · S. ensis (Mexican Barracuda (FB)) · S. flavicauda (Yellowstripe Barracuda) · S. forsteri (Forster´s Sea-Pike) · S. genie (Guachanche Barracuda) · S. guachancho (Barracuda) · S. guaguancho (Guachanche Barracuda) · S. helleri (Heller's Barracuda) · S. hupferi (Indo-Malaysian Barracuda) · S. idiastes (Pelican Barracuda (FB)) · S. japonica (Japanese Barracuda) · S. jello (Banded Barracuda) · S. lucasana (Lucas Barracuda (FB)) · S. novaehollandiae (Arrow Barracuda) · S. obtusata (Blunt Barracuda) · S. picuda (William's Barracuda) · S. picudilla (Little Barracuda) · S. pinguis (Brown Barracuda) · S. putnamae (William´s Barracuda) · S. qenie (Blackfin Barracuda) · S. sphyraena (Mediterranean Barracuda) · S. viridensis (Yellowmouth Barracuda)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the fishes of Bermuda, with notes on a collection made in 1905 for the Field Museum, by Tarleton H. Bean. 7 1906 Chicago, 1906. url p. 42.
• A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Report presented at the eighty-ninth annual meeting, Clearwater, Fla., Sept. 16-18, 1959. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1960. url p. 46.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 281, p. 281.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 82 1938 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 185.
• Copeia. [New York, N.Y., etc.]: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. url p. 50.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 71.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 185.
• Fishery circular / U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries. [Washington]: The Bureau, 1931-1939. url p. 22.
• Fishery leaflet / United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, url p. 15.
• NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url p. 27.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 13 1890 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 317, p. 36, p. 572.
• Report of the Commissioner for. .. / United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Washington: G.P.O., 1874-1905. url p. 335, p. 335.
• Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the fiscal year. .. with appendixes Washington: G.P.O., 1914- url p. 255.
• Systematic catalogue of the fishes of Tortugas, Florids with observations on color, habits, and local distribution by William H. Longley. .. Edited and completed by Smauel F. Hildebrand. .. Washington, D.C.1941 url p. 70.
• The marine fishes of Panama. by Seth E. Meek and Samuel F. Hildebrand. 15 1923 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1923 url p. 287.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• FishBase
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
• Harrison, Ian (from FishBase).
• Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Accessed March 01, 2006. www.iobis.org
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 138916
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-22195
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13809487
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 397949

Footnotes

1. Mean = -2,125.900 meters (-6,974.738 feet), Standard Deviation = 2,942.250 based on 20 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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