General Information

COMMON NAMES: Blackfin Barracuda, Dark-finned Sea-pike, Military Seapike TRADITIONAL NAMES: Wono (PK) GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Tuamotu; Panama; n. to Micronesia; s. to New Caledonia COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group - unrecorded; N.Group (PK, ?); Marine, pelagic SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Food KEY FEATURES: A large barracuda, to 150cmSL. Dark above, silvery below; dark bars, 18-23, curved, long from upper dorsal to lower ventral. Dorsal Fins and tail black, without white tips; Anal black with 1-2 posterior rays white. Inside mouth black, teeth erect (not slanded backwards). 1st gill arch rough, without rakers. SIMILAR SPECIES: See under Great Barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda).

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: -    Makatea: -
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
-	-	-	-	-	-

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
			P

Sphyraena qenie Klunzinger, 1870
SYNONYMS: Sphyraena genie [misspelling]; Sphyraena tessera

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Scombroidei; SPHYRAENIDAE

Vouchers:
Pukapuka: fieldspecimen+photo, 3/2004, K.Salisbury with ID as Sphyraena qenie [new CIBD record]. Suwarrow: fieldspecimen+photo, 2004, Vince Kerr with ID as Sphyraena qenie;

References:
text p.201 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 112f Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 111-02 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 69/13 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. 274 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB04a, zM05a, zupM05a, zD05a

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