Species: Sphyraena guachancho, Guachanche barracuda, Guaguanche barracuda

Sphyraena guachancho Cuvier, 1829

Guachanche barracuda

Body elongate, slender, cylindrical at the front; head long with a long pointed snout; large protractile mouth with a distinctly protruding lower jaw, reaches under eye; jaws and roof of mouth with many long sharp-edged teeth of unequal sizes; gill rakers present as 1-2 short spines or spiny plates at angle of gill arch; two widely separated dorsal fins (V + I, 9-10); anal fin small, II, 8, similar to and under 2nd dorsal; last rays of dorsal and anal fins distinctly longer than rays just before them; pectorals, small reach to or beyond pelvic base and under origin of dorsal fin; pelvics I, 5, small, inserted before origin of dorsal fin, about midway between tip of lower jaw and base of last anal fin ray; a forked tail without central lobes; small smooth scales, 108-122 on lateral line; a well-developed, straight lateral line.