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Found singly either snout down mimicking whip corals or swimming alongside herbivore fish changing colour to match the fish and their surroundings ready to pounce on any other unsuspecting crustacean or fish.

Kentucky election day 2019. The west atlantic trumpetfish a. Because of the shape of the fish and the fact that some liken the fishs mouth to the mouthpiece of a trumpet the fish has inherited the common name. Trumpetfish genus aulostomus any of the three species of marine fishes that constitute the family aulostomidae order gasterosteiformes found on coral reefs and reef flats in the tropical and subtropical waters of the atlantic indian and western pacific oceans.

Maculatus the atlantic trumpetfish a. Trumpetfish also known as atlantic trumpetfish caribbean trumpetfish corneta in spanish speaking regions and fifer are slender elongate fish with a large long head and compressed snout. The trumpet fish main characteristics.

The trumpetfish can be recognised by its long body tubular snout with minute teeth its chin barbel and the series of short dorsal spinestheir bodies are inflexible supported by interwoven struts of bone. It is long skinny and somewhat compressed from side to side rather than cylindrical shaped like some eels and is known to reach lengths of over three feet one meter. Trumpet fish are members of the order syngnathiformes spinned fish along with seahorses and cornet fishes.

Strigosus and the chinese trumpetfish a. Also known as atlantic trumpetfish caribbean trumpetfish painted flutemouth trumpet trumpeter. This fish is extremely long and slender.

These fish are closely related and the generic name aulostomus is a compound of two greek words. Trumpet fish are part of class actinopterygii which consists of ray finned fish and can be found in coral reefs throughout the atlantic indian and pacific oceansthere are three species of trumpet fish under the scientific name aulostomus. The colouration of this species is variable.

Aulos which means flute and stoma which means mouth. Their dorsal and anal fins are closely adjacent to the tail where individual dorsal spines reach midway towards the head region. The atlantic trumpetfish is a shy reef fish that lives on the coral reefs and seagrass beds of the caribbean sea and surrounding waters.

It is often brown or green with pale stripes and bars and white spots posteriorly. Bodies of trumpetfish are elongated rigid and pike shaped. This predatory technique likely became part of the trumpetfishs instinct after the fall when animals began to eat other animals.

Similar to most members of the order syngnathiformes the bodies of trumpetfish are inflexible supported by interwoven struts of bone.