Barracuda
Acanthocybium solandri
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Scombriformes
- Family
- Scombridae
- Genus
- Acanthocybium
Where to Find
Found in 55 diving areas across 39 countries and 9 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 8 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 8 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 93 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 3 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 6 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 9 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands - 3 records
- María la Gorda, Cuba - 14 records
- Varadero, Cuba - 2 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 2 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 2 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 2 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 6 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 2 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 28 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 10 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 2 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 8 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 11 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 3 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 2 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 3 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 27 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 2 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 5 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 251 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 43 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 19 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 2 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 43 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 8 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 102 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 4 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Cozumel, Mexico - 15 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 20 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 15 records
- Hawaii, United States - 7 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 6 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 885 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 1 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 2 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 2 records