Fistularia tabacaria | |
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Painting by Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, 1856 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Syngnathiformes |
Family: | Fistulariidae |
Genus: | Fistularia |
Species: | F. tabacaria
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Binomial name | |
Fistularia tabacaria | |
Synonyms[2] | |
Fistularia tabacaria, the cornetfish, blue-spotted cornetfish, tobacco trumpetfish or unarmed trumpetfish,[2] is a species of cornetfish found along the Atlantic coasts of the Americas and in the central Atlantic off West Africa and the Macaronesian Islands.[3][1] This species is of minor importance in commercial fisheries.[2]