Species: Fistularia tabacaria, Blue-spotted cornetfish


Fistularia tabacaria Linnaeus, 1758
Blue-spotted cornetfish
Body slender, elongate, square in cross-section, slightly depressed; a very long tubular snout with a short oblique mouth at the end; minute teeth; top and bottom snout ridges smooth in adult, side ridge with small serrations; area between eyes narrow and smooth; dorsal and anal fins short-based, near tail; dorsal fin triangular, 14-16; anal fin same form and size as dorsal fin, 14-15 rays; pectoral 15-17 rays; pelvics 6 rays, on abdomen well behind pectorals; tail fin forked, lobes smaller than dorsal fin, with a long central filament; lateral line arched at front half of body, continues out onto tail filament; without elongate bony plates imbedded in skin along center of back; bony plates on rear part of lateral line without forward pointing spines; skin covered with small spines.
Brown above, lighter below; 2 rows of blue spots on side of snout, 1 along center of back and 1 on each side of back.
Size: 200 cm.
Habitat: usually around reefs and seagrass beds.
Depth: 1-250 m.
Both sides of the Atlantic; Nova Scotia to Brazil.

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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Near Bottom
- Bottom + water column
- Habitat
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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Sand & gravel
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Submerged vegetation
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Water column
- Reef and soft bottom
- Corals
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- Transatlantic (East+West Atlantic)
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Extends South of GC
- Extends N + S of GC
- GC non-endemic
- All species..
- Island (s)
- Also in Brazil
- Continent + Island (s)
- Extends North of GC
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Temperate (>35N)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 200
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 250