The yellowtail barracuda, Sphyraena flavicauda, a barracuda

Barracuda

The barracuda is a ray-finned fish known for its large size and fearsome appearance. Its body is long, fairly compressed, and covered with small, smooth scales. Some species could reach up to 1.8m in length and 30 cm in width...

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 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.