Great barracuda

Evolution

• there are no sup species of this animal

• been around for around 70 million years

• the closest living relative is the pick handle barracuda

• 3 ancestors are: Sphyraena amici, Sphyraena bognorensis, and Sphyraena bolcensis

Description

• The great barracuda has a slender, streamlined body that is round in the mid-section. 

• 6 inch long teeth

• 2.8 feet

• 15 lbs

• lives around 12 years

• females are around 20 cm longer than males

habitat

• Plants: coral, sea grass and mangroves

• Animals: angelfish, butterfly fish and tang

• temp:70-80 degrees fahrenheit

• terrain: coral reef 

• Continents: found in every continent except Antarctica 

• If invasive: not invasive 

• what it eats:grunts, groupers, small tune etc.

• How often it eats: 3 times a day 

• how it gets its food: burst of speed up to 30 mph our pacing other fish 

• Special foods: no special foods

interactions

• Predation:sharks, tuna and Goliath grouper 

• sexual competition:they don’t fight.

• disease:ciguatera

• competition in species:they do compete 

• competition out of species:sharks mackerel and dolphins

• what do they compete over:food 

• effect of invasive species:they can die from trying to eating lion fish

• iucn rating:least concern 

• population:unknown

• population trend:unknown 

• human impacts:loss of habitat like coral reefs due to pollution

• future impacts:can lose even more of habitat due to pollution even the Great Barrier Reef is being affected 

• how long humans have interacted:4000 years

• effect made to minimize:we are trying to regrow coral in new locations