 My
name is Hannah Sellnow and I am Biology/Biomedical Science
major, Spanish minor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. I plan to
continue at UWL for graduate school to become a Physical Therapist.
I created this webpage as part of a course I am taking, Organismal
Biology, and when I first learned I needed to make a webpage I couldn't
decide what organism to pick! There are so many to choose from! But
being an avid Guitar Hero fan, I decided on the Great Barracuda because
of Heart's 1977 hit,
Barracuda. Not only did I learn a lot of things I never knew before
but I actually found the Barracuda fascinating and I hope you will too!
If you would like to contact me, you can do so by email at
sellnow.hann@students.uwlax.edu
RELATED LINKS:
1. UWL Biology Department:
Multiple
Organisms
2. Shane Paterson's Graduate Research
3.
Shedd Aquarium:
Fast Facts about the Barracuda
4.
Sea World: Lots of great information about ALL the bony
fishes!
5. Some great Barracuda
pictures!
LITERATURE CITED:
1. Dechraoui, M. and Tiedeken, J. 2005. Use of two
detection methods to discriminate ciguatoxins from brevetoxins:
Application to great barracuda from Florida Keys.
Toxicon V46 No3: 261-270.
2. Grubich, J. and Rice, A. and Westneat, M. 2007.
Functional morphology of bite mechanisms in the great barracuda (Sphyraena
barracuda). Zoology V111 No1: 16-29.
3. Nelson, G. 1989. Phylogeny of major fish groups.
Pages 325-336 in B. Fernhom, K. Bremer, and H. Jornvall, editors. The
Hierarchy of Life. Elsevier Science Publishers,
Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
4. Paterson, S. 2002. In the
Realm of the Barracuda. The Ocean Realm N2: 36-41
5. Squire, J and Smith, S. 1977. Angler’s Guide to
the United States Pacific Coast.
U.S.
Department of Commerce. National Marine Fisheries Service. Seattle, Washington, USA, November 1977.
6. Vanstrum, G. 2003. The Saltwater Wilderness. Oxford University
Press, New York City, New York, USA.
7. Dances with ‘cudas 2003. <URL:
http://www.uga.edu/cuda/>.
Accessed 29 March 2008.
8. Blanket permission to use images from the
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) photo
library:
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/aboutimages.html
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