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Thyrsites atun
Barracuda Bar`ra*cu"da, Barracouata Bar`ra*cou"ata, n. 1. (Zo["o]l.) A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyr[ae]na, sometimes used as food. Note: That of Europe and our Atlantic coast is Sphyr[ae]na spet (or S. vulgaris); a southern species is S. picuda; the Californian is S. argentea. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New Zealand (Thyrsites atun).

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- Thyrsites atun (Euphrasén, 1791), known as the snoek in South Africa and as the barracouta in Australasia, is a long, thin species of snake mackerel found...
- Atun may refer to: People Hakkı Atun, former prime minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Norman Atun, Malaysian actor Fish Thyrsites atun...
- case a bryozoan. The life cycle of K. thyrsites is poorly understood. It has been hypothesized that K. thyrsites has an indirect life cycle involving some...
- Rexichthys johnpaxtoni Parin & Astakhov, 1987 (Paxton’s escolar) Genus Thyrsites Thyrsites atun (Euphrasén, 1791) (Snoek) Genus Thyrsitoides Thyrsitoides marleyi...
- Northern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes (chrysocome) moseleyi) and snoek (Thyrsites atun). Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Mendosoma lineatum". FishBase...
- part of the 19th century. It was particularly used to catch the fish Thyrsites atun, locally called the "barracouta", a confusion with the larger ocean...
- some temporary settlements used by seasonal fishermen catching snoek (Thyrsites atun). In the 1930s, an ambitious project was started to build a guano island...
- anchovy (Engraulis australis) at Farewell Spit in 1996 and barracouta (Thyrsites atun) in Port Phillip Bay in 1998. They also consumed correspondingly larger...
- pretiosus Cocco, 1879 (Tropical and temperate parts of all oceans) Snoek, Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen, 1791) (Namibia to Port Elizabeth) Family: Nomeidae – Driftfishes...
- of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Barracouta, after the fish Thyrsites atun. Another was renamed before being launched: HMS Barracouta (1782) was...