Title: Saltwater
Species #: 46
Common Name: Barramundi Scientific Name:
Lates calcarifer
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Centropomidae Geography / Habitat: Barramundi are found in the coastal areas of the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans to include coastal Australia, Southeast and Eastern Asia, and India. Life Strategy: Males and females gather together only during spawning which takes place at the mouths of estuaries on or near a full moon, where tides draw the eggs up into the estuaries Spawning season per year occurs at the end of the dry season and the beginning of the rainy season and females carry from 2.3 to 32.2 million eggs. Food / Feed Strategy: They are predators that eat microcrustaceans such as copepods and amphipods. Mollusks are consumed in a smaller amount. Larger barramundi eat macrocrustaceans and pelagic bony fishes (80%).
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Body Form or Style: Fusiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Subcarangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Lates_calcarifer.html
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