The Barracudas
Body elongate, subterete, covered with small cycloid scales; head very long, pointed, pike-like, scaly above and on sides; mouth large, horizontal; jaws long, lower projecting; upper jaw not protractile, its border formed by the premaxillaries behind which are the broad maxillaries; large, sharp, unequal teeth on both jaws and palatines, none on vomer; usually a very strong, sharp canine near tip of lower jaw; opercular bones without spines or serrations; gill-openings wide, the membranes not united, free from the isthmus; gillrakers very short or obsolete; pseudobranchiae well developed; lateral line well developed and straight.
