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Updated 11/3/2025

Family Sphyraenidae

INDO-WEST PACIFIC

Sphyraena forsteri



Blue Corner, Palau


Banda Sea, Indonesia
 
   

BIGEYE BARRACUDA

Schools occur along reefs during the day, dispersing to feed at night.  Large eyes, black spot at pectoral fin base, and a white tipped soft dorsal fin.  Attains 30 inches.  East Africa to Japan and French Polynesia, excluding Hawaii.