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Blackfin barracuda
Sphyraena qenie
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Blackfin barracuda
- Scientific
- Sphyraena qenie
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Maximum size
- Up to about 1.7 m (total length); commonly 80 cm; max. published weight 7.1 kg
- Depth and habitat
- Coral reefs and reef-associated habitats, recorded from 0 to 100 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023
Description
A barracuda with many dark chevron-shaped bars along the body and a largely blackish, forked tail. It forms large, slowly circling schools near current-swept reefs and channels by day, sometimes at the same site for months or years, and disperses at night to hunt fish.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives on the FishBase country checklist (status: present). No Maldives-specific information was found in MRS (1997) or the other sources reviewed, and no Dhivehi name is recorded.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Sphyraena-qenie.html
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:School_of_blackfin_barracuda_(sphyraena_qenie).JPG
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.