The Species Black List
Sphyraena lucasana
Cortez barracuda
The Cortez barracuda (Sphyraena lucasana) is confined to the region of the Gulf of California, the Baja California Peninsula and coastal southwestern Mexico, where it is potentially threatened by overfishing.
- Status
- Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List
- Restriction tier
- 2, restricted, extent unclear
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Realm
- Oceanic
- Locality
- Gulf of California
- As IUCN records it
- Sphyraena lucasana Gill, 1863