trumpetfish
IPA: trˈʌmpʌtfɪʃ
noun
- Any of the fish in the family Aulostomidae family of tube-shaped fish.
- especially Aulostomus maculatus.
- A longspine snipefish, Macroramphosus scolopax.
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Examples of "trumpetfish" in Sentences
- Trumpetfish are closely related to cornetfish.
- Foraging trumpetfish may make 2-3 strikes per hour.
- Bodies of trumpetfish are elongated and rigid, and pike shaped.
- In four days of diving last summer, I often spotted colorful stoplight parrotfish, doctorfish, sergeant majors, trumpetfish, four-eye butterfly fish, squirrelfish and school masters.
- “I examined 20 species of predators, including sharks, groupers, snappers, jacks, trumpetfish and barracuda, from 22 Caribbean nations,” said Stallings, a postdoctoral associate at the FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory.
- Twenty taxa of predatory fishes met the above criteria and included eight species of grouper (Family Serranidae), eight species of snapper (Lutjanidae), one species each of trumpetfish (Aulostomidae) and barracuda (Sphyraenidae), and both jacks
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