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Barracuda

Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, Barracuda also known as meat stick (Liaoning, Hebei), red-eyed fish (Shandong), red eye shuttle, red-eyed mullet (Zhejiang, Fujian), vegetarian fish (Guangdong). (1) Morphological characteristics: short snout, subcylindrical in front of body, flat in rear side. Small eyes, fat eyes face underdeveloped, eyes next to a circle of red. The maxilla bends suddenly downward at the corner of the mouth. The origin of the first dorsal fin is closer to the snout than to the caudal base. Caudal fin trailing edge slightly concave. The body is greenish-blue, the abdomen white, and the body side has black longitudinal stripes. Each fin is light gray. (II)

Barracuda also known as meat stick (Liaoning, Hebei), red-eyed fish (Shandong), red eye shuttle, red-eyed mullet (Zhejiang, Fujian), vegetarian fish (Guangdong).

(i) Morphological characteristics

The nose is short, the front part of the body is subcylindrical, and the rear part is laterally compressed. Small eyes, fat eyes face is not developed, eyes next to a circle of red. The maxilla bends suddenly downward at the corner of the mouth. The origin of the first dorsal fin is closer to the snout than to the caudal base. Caudal fin trailing edge slightly concave. The body is greenish-blue, the abdomen white, and the body side has black longitudinal stripes. Each fin is light gray.

(ii) Habits of life:

1. habits

Barracuda are distributed along the coast of China, but more in the north and less in the south. Sexually active, jumping. It lives in estuaries and harbours and has access to fresh water. Juvenile fish like to swarm and have obvious phototaxis and rheotaxis. Barracuda has a wide range of salinity adaptation, ranging from 0 ‰ to 38‰. It can live in seawater, brackish water and fresh water. It also has a wide range of temperature adaptation. It can live in waters with water temperature of 3~35℃, the optimum water temperature is 12~25℃, and-0.7℃ is lethal.

2. breeding

The breeding season of barracuda varies from the end of April to the beginning of June in Bohai Bay and from the beginning of April to the beginning of May in Zhejiang. The age of sexual maturity is generally 2~3 years for males and 3~4 years for females. The number of eggs is 1.5 - 6 million. Floating eggs, egg diameter 0.9~1 mm, oil globule 1.

 
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