Real photoREAL PHOTO

Longnose gurnard (Pterygotrigla macrorhynchus)
Specimen imageSPECIMEN IMAGE
Longnose gurnard (Pterygotrigla macrorhynchus) specimen
← Back to catalog

Triglidae

Longnose gurnard

Pterygotrigla macrorhynchus

Triglid Fish Reaching Twenty One Centimeters

  • Transcontinental
  • Marine fish
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Africa
  • East Asia
  • Oceania
  • South Asia
  • Southeast Asia
  • Fusiform
  • Medium

Longnose gurnard is a marine fish from Indo-West Pacific. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 21 cm.

Family
Triglidae
Maximum length
21 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
fusiform
Distribution
Indo-West Pacific: Maldives, Madagascar, southwest India, and coast of Mozambique, East Africa; north to Japan; southward to Taiwan, the Philippines, northern Australia off Queensland and Western Australia.
Conservation status
LCLeast Concern

Generating…