. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 2006 N(/ri:.s 241 First Record of the Great Barracuda, .V/^//v/Y/r//^/ hdrrnciidd from Canada Darlene ', Brian W. Coad', Ismai;i. Gaivi;/.-, and John Gilhen' 'Canadian Muscuru ol Nature, R (). liox 3443. Slalion IJ. Ottawa, Ontario K 1P (iPA Canada 2|219 Cromwell Road, Halifax, Nova .Scotia B3H 41,1 Canada •'Nova .Scotia Museum of Natural History. 1747 Summer Street. Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3A6 Canada Balkwill, Darlene, firian W. Coad, Ismael Gaive/, and John Cilhen. 2(K)6. First record of the Great Bimcudi, Sph
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 2006 N(/ri:.s 241 First Record of the Great Barracuda, .V/^//v/Y/r//^/ hdrrnciidd from Canada Darlene ', Brian W. Coad', Ismai;i. Gaivi;/.-, and John Gilhen' 'Canadian Muscuru ol Nature, R (). liox 3443. Slalion IJ. Ottawa, Ontario K 1P (iPA Canada 2|219 Cromwell Road, Halifax, Nova .Scotia B3H 41,1 Canada •'Nova .Scotia Museum of Natural History. 1747 Summer Street. Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3A6 Canada Balkwill, Darlene, firian W. Coad, Ismael Gaive/, and John Cilhen. 2(K)6. First record of the Great Bimcudi, Sphyraena barracuda, from Canada. Canadian Field-Naturalist 120(2); 241-242. We report the collection, and provide a description, of the first Great Barracuda, Sphyraenu barracuda, in Canadian water- based on a partial skeleton from Country Island, Nova .Scolia. Key Words: Great Barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, new record, fish fauna, Nova Scotia, Canada. The cranium, lower jaw and attached trunk verte- brae of a Great Barracuda, Sphyracana barracuda (Family Sphyracnidae), were found dried on a beach on Country Island, Guysborough County. Nova Scotia at 45°06'00"N, 61°32'37"W in May 1999 by Ismael Galvez. This is the first record for this species from Canada (Scott and Scott 1988; Coad et al. 1995). The specimen is catalogued in the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, Halifax, under NSM 85385. Description Three species of barracuda are reported from the western Atlantic Ocean north of Florida, Sphyraena barracuda (Walbaum, 1792), S. borealis DeKay, 1H42. and S. f>uachanch(> Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes. 1829. Only S. borealis has been recorded from Cana- da, a single specimen from Halifax Harbour. Nova Scotia, caught on 5 October 1928 (Scott and Scott 1988). Carpenter (2002) records 5. barracuda and 5. guachancho from Massachusetts (rare) southwards. Our specimen is neither S. borealis nor S. guachan- cho on the basis of length, these two sf>ecies gen
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