red cornetfish

Fistularia petimba

Two Hundred Centimeters Catfish

Red
Tropical
Transcontinental
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Africa
East Asia
Europe
Oceania
South America
Elongated
Large
Tropical fish

The red cornetfish (Fistularia petimba), also known as the rough flutemouth, is a cornetfish of the family Fistulariidae, found in subtropical and tropical oceans worldwide, at depths between 10 m (33 ft) and 200 metres (660 ft). They are up to 2 m (6.6 ft) in length but rarely exceed 1 m (3.3 ft).

Class: Teleosts
Order: Pipefishes and Allies
Family: Fistulariidae
Genus: Fistularia
Maximum length: 200 cm
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: Western Atlantic: Argentina (Ref. 86323 ), southern Brazil to Massachusetts (Ref. 47377 ). Eastern Atlantic: Galicia, Spain (Ref. 74931 ), Cape Blanc and Cape Verde to Angola (Ref. 6557 ). Mediterranean: Cadiz, Spain (southern Iberian Peninsula) (Ref. 34227 ). Reported from Walvis Bay, Namibia (Ref. 4272 ). Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Red Sea, to the Hawaii and Tuamoto Is., north to southern Japan and the Ogasawara Islands, south to Victoria, Australia (Ref. 33390 ).
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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