What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Great barracuda been recorded?

Sphyraena barracuda occurrence evidence comes from 38,340 records in 66 countries and territories, from 1883 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Great barracuda
Great barracuda — Photo (display-sized rendition): Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesSphyraenidaeSphyraena

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

38,340 records across 66 countries and territories, 1883–2026.

Sphyraena barracuda · GBIF taxon key 9784990

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: June.

8 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18832026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Great barracuda has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Great barracuda. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 22,315
Puerto Rico 14,830
US Virgin Islands 232
Belize 146
Seychelles 123
United States Minor Outlying Islands 82
Bahamas 69
Philippines 57
American Samoa 52
Panama 41
Guam 36
ZZ 36
Northern Mariana Islands 29
Australia 25
Palau 25
Cameroon 21
Brazil 18
Cuba 18
Jamaica 18
Mexico 18
Curaçao 12
Mayotte 11
Bonaire 8
Bermuda 7
Micronesia 7
Honduras 7
Cayman Islands 6
New Caledonia 6
Egypt 5
Indonesia 5
Marshall Islands 5
Trinidad & Tobago 5
Thailand 4
Costa Rica 3
Fiji 3
India 3
British Indian Ocean Territory 3
Japan 3
Maldives 3
French Polynesia 3

Showing the top 40 of 66 places.

Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.