Fistularia

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 159438ITIS 166415key worms:159438

2026-08-05: itis_id 166415 via WoRMS external link

The cornetfishes or flutemouths are a small family, the Fistulariidae, of extremely elongated fish in the order Syngnathiformes. The family consists of a single genus, Fistularia, with four species, found worldwide in tropical and subtropical marine environments.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2003 and 2003.R

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observations: 1
records: 2003
years: 1
datasets

Photo · Matthias Kleine --> Mkleine · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:159438")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 1 taxon

sp Fistularia corneta Deepwater cornetfish1

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Fistulariidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Fistularia tabacaria · source
Photo · Matthias Kleine --> Mkleine · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Cornetfish” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1312579834

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

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