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Family: Lestidiidae Naked barracudinas



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Scientific Name English Name Distribution Max. Length (cm) Year
Lestidiops affinis Barracudina Atlantic Ocean. In the w 11.2 SL 1930
Lestidiops bathyopteryx Eastern Central Pacific 12.8 SL 1944
Lestidiops cadenati Eastern Atlantic 8.3 SL 1962
Lestidiops distans Eastern Central Atlantic. 20.9 SL 1953
Lestidiops extremus Western Central Pacific. 2.2 SL 1953
Lestidiops gracilis Southwest Pacific 2.8 SL 1953
Lestidiops indopacificus Indo-Pacific barracudina Indo-West Pacific 2.3 SL 1953
Lestidiops jayakari Pacific barracudina Atlantic, Indian and Paci 20 TL 1889
Lestidiops luetkeni Naked barracuda Indo-West Pacific 1933
Lestidiops mirabilis Strange pike smelt Atlantic, Indian and Paci 26.1 SL 1933
Lestidiops neles Eastern Pacific 7.8 SL 1953
Lestidiops pacificus Southwest Pacific 1.6 SL 1931
Lestidiops pseudosphyraenoides Eastern Atlantic 9.5 SL 1918
Lestidiops ringens Slender barracudina Eastern Pacific 21 TL 1880
Lestidiops similis Atlantic Ocean 20 TL 1933
Lestidiops sphyraenopsis North Pacific 39 SL 1916
Lestidiops sphyrenoides Eastern Atlantic 27 SL 1820
Lestidium atlanticum Atlantic barracudina Widely distributed in tro 25 TL 1928
Lestidium bigelowi Western Indian Ocean 3.7 SL 1967
Lestidium longilucifer Long light-organ barracudina Western Pacific 29.2 SL 2020
Lestidium nigrirostrum Australian robust barracudina Southwestern Pacific 33.8 TL 2020
Lestidium nudum Deep water pike smelt Pacific Ocean. 24.7 SL 1905
Lestidium orientale Oriental barracudina Northwest Pacific 16.7 SL 2019
Lestidium prolixum Northwest Pacific 27 SL 1953
Lestidium rofeni Rofen’s barracudina Western Pacific 26.4 SL 2020
Lestrolepis intermedia Circumglobal 33.8 SL 1868
Lestrolepis japonica Japanese barracudina Western Pacific 22.2 TL 1908
Lestrolepis luxiocula Eastern Indian Ocean 14.8 SL 2019
Lestrolepis nigroventralis Black-belly barracudina Northwestern Pacific 24.9 SL 2019
Lestrolepis pofi Indo-Pacific. off Hawaii, 19.3 SL 1953
Macroparalepis affinis Atlantic Ocean 55 TL 1933
Macroparalepis brevis Atlantic Ocean 13.5 SL 1933
Macroparalepis danae Western Pacific. 12.1 SL 1933
Macroparalepis johnfitchi Black barracudina Eastern Pacific 29.9 SL 1960
Macroparalepis longilateralis South Atlantic and Southw 31.4 SL 1973
Macroparalepis macrogeneion Longfin barracudina South Atlantic 42 TL 1973
Macroparalepis nigra Eastern Atlantic 46.1 SL 1965



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