Fistularia tabacaria Cornetfish

Fistularia tabacariais commonly referred to as Cornetfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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AphiaID:: 159440

Scientific:: Fistularia tabacaria
German:: Blaupunkt-Flötenfisch
English:: Cornetfish

Category:: Trumpet & Cornetfish

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Syngnathiformes (Order) > Fistulariidae (Family) > Fistularia (Genus) > tabacaria (Species)
Initial determination:: Linnaeus, 1758

Occurrence:: Benin, Suriname, Barbados, Guadeloupe, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada , Columbia, Congo, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East-Atlantic Ocean, Equatorial Guinea, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico (East Pacific), Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, São Tomé e Principé, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South America, The Bahamas, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Cayman Islands, the Ivory Coast, the Netherlands Antilles, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., West-Atlantic Ocean
Sea depth:: 1 - 200 Meter
Size:: 47.24" - 78.74" (120cm - 200cm)
Weight:: 280 g
Temperature:: 68 °F - 82.4 °F (20°C - 28°C)
Food:: Crabs, Edible crab, Fish (little fishes), Invertebrates, Krill, Living Food, Predatory, Rock shrimps, Schrimps, Zooplankton
Difficulty:: Not suitable for home aquaria!
Offspring:: Not available as offspring
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Least concern (LC)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2012-09-23 19:36:11
Last edit:: 2019-10-20 19:34:53

Info

Linnaeus, 1758

Distribution:
Eastern Atlantic: Cape Blanc and Cape Verde to Angola. Western Atlantic: Bermuda, Georges Bank, and southern Canada to Brazil.
Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Central and South American coasts.

Biology:
solitary species, occurs over grass flats and reefs, and on hard and rocky bottoms.
Feeds on fishes, small crustaceans and invertebrates.

Synonyms:
Aulostoma margravii Castelnau, 1855
Fistularia neoboracensis Mitchill, 1815 (misspelling)
Fistularia neoeboracensis Mitchill, 1815
Fistularia ocellata Duméril, 1861
Flagellaria fistularis Gronow, 1854

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Syngnathiformes (Order) > Fistulariidae (Family) > Fistularia (Genus) > Fistularia tabacaria (Species)

External links

FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Homepage Prof. Dr. Peter Wirtz (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Copyright Kevin Bryant, Foto: Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information system

Copyright Athila Bertoncini, Foto: ilha Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien, ilha Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, 02.02.2011, 120 cm

Copyright Tobi Meyer Fistularia tabacaria - Blaupunkt-Flötenfisch

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