Talk:Barracuda

message: I was under the impression that there was no plural to barracuda? Isn't it like sheep?
"I saw a sheep"..."I saw many sheep"
"I saw a barracuda"..."I saw many barracuda"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.159.184.45 (talk) 11:33, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Barracuda plural

message: I removed the recently added Baracudas and humans section as it puts IMHO way too much emphasys on the old adagio of barracudas being very dangerous animals while in fact they generally could not care less about humans swiming or diving around them. I took the picture of the diver swimming in the school with hundreds of barracudas myself. 
It is similar with the now debunked story of sharks that once were portraited as evil creatures attacking humans whenever they could. 
While attacks on humans have happened they are extremely rare (you better watch out for that meteor hitting you) and generally were provoked by (spear) fishing or hand feeding.
The great barracuda page has a fairly informative link:
http://www.uga.edu/cuda/attacks.html
Janderk 10:12, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Barracudas attacking humans

message: The article gives some information about barracuda length, but it fails to give information about barracuda weight, and the article should. —Lowellian (reply) 05:29, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Weight?

message: Is this right? Could someone add a citation for barracuda being "excellent dog food"? --J.StuartClarke (talk) 12:29, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Added here. I have reverted. William Avery (talk) 13:36, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Excellent Dog Food

message: The opening words of this article:
"The barracuda is a ray-finned small shark..."
Would a qualified biologist care to comment on this?
"...known for its large size (up to 16 (sic) ft in length...)"
Again, very unlikely.
Has the page been vandalised?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shrekkie45 (talk • contribs) 16:43, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barracuda are not a species of shark, surely 

message: How common is barracuda? Where exactly is it found? Near beaches? What depth? Do barracuda migrate or just travel great distances?
--Zybez (talk) 09:59, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barracuda - more info on where it is found 

message: I'm undoing this misspelled commercial for a video game from an article on a kind of sea creature.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.29.69.37 (talk) 00:56, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Gitaur Hero 3" Really? Do we need this? At all? 

message: I cleaned up the spelling and grammar in the section on sport-fishing for barracudas. It appears that the author had written it from his/her personal experience, so it had read "you use X lure with X bait." I reformatted it to remove the "you" references. Sandarmoir (talk) 17:01, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  some spelling and grammar clean-up 

message: The source for "battery" explicitly says that the terms used there are unauthenticated. This term needs a reliable source such as a dictionary. Jojalozzo 22:29, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Battery of barracuda usage is unauthenticated 

message: I was in the caribbean, St. Thomas to be exact, and i saw a barracuda a few feet from the beach. I almost peed my pants. Those things are scary  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigcat1999 (talk • contribs) 22:01, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location 

message: The Spanish, Italian and Portuguese versions of this article seem to indicate that there are 26 rather than 27 species (the Portuguese version talks about 25 but lists 26). What is the correct figure?
ICE77 (talk) 08:11, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of species 

message: Barracuda? Where did the name originate?
Interesting aside, on 18 January 1832 Charles Darwin wrote in his diary -- ".... the little time I was out of my cabin, I spent geologising on Quail Island.- The day has been very hot: & I have feasted on Tamarinds & a profusion of oranges, — for dinner I had Barrow Cooter for fish & sweet potatoes for vegetables: quite tropical and correct." Moriori (talk) 01:08, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: And where did the name come from?

message: "Scuba diver inside a group of sawtooth barracudas before becoming their food in Ko Tao, Thailand."
Something tells me that caption might not be 100% accurate as a description of what took place after the picture was taken.  :)
Made me chuckle, but I'll go ahead and clean it up. "Scuba diver swimming inside a group of sawtooth barracudas off Ko Tao, Thailand." should work, right?  Meh, will go ahead with that.  Anyone who wants something more elaborate is completely welcome to revise.
Wait, did anybody here ever decide on barracuda vs. barracudas for the plural?  Ah, screw it..."barracudas" stays until/unless somebody else wants to change. 
24.3.48.180 (talk) 07:06, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Caption Vandalism

message: There is a German article for this, but it is linked only from de to en not the other way round. Why? How to change this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.54.28.56 (talk) 09:37, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link To German Page missing 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This is the second sentence in the introductory paragraph:
"The barracuda is a saltwater fish of the genus Sphyraena, the only genus in the family Sphyraenidae which was named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1815."
Did Rafinesque name the genus or the family?
Best regards, TheBaron0530 (talk) 20:24, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The references are clear he named the family. William Avery (talk) 21:41, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misplaced modifier-did Rafinesque name the genus or the family? 

message: Imagine Reason (talk) 13:06, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the conservation status? 

message: * Specific text to be added or removed:  ORDER : Incertae sedis in Carangaria , 
* Reason for the change: accuracy
* References supporting change: https://fishtreeoflife.org/taxonomy/family/Sphyraenidae/
: Partly done:  Please see this discussion. Thanks! PK650 (talk) 03:53, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect order and sub order or Barracuda