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Project Noah Nature School
Sphyraena qenie
Silvery with dusky to dark tail with dark margin; long cylindrical body and large underslung jaw with pointed teeth, about 18-22 chevron-shaped dark markings on sides. Size up to 1 meter length. Usually form large school numbering to thousands and they are quite a spectacular sight. When in great numbers, the school will looks like a big wall. Usually swims in one direction when there is current. Occasionally, they swims in circle like a tornado, smaller circle on the deeper side to wider circle near the surface.
Seaward reefs to 50 meters depth Indo Pacific; Red Sea and East Africa to Panama, south west Japan to Australia.
Spotted on May 16, 2015
Submitted on May 20, 2015
2 Comments
Thanks, @andrew
Beautiful. I love the first picture.