Eastern Atlantic Trumpetfish
Aulostomus strigosus
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 535
- Most observed in
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The Atlantic trumpetfish (Aulostomus strigosus), also referred to as Atlantic coronetfish, is a species of trumpetfish in the family Aulostomidae. It is a tropical marine fish found in shallow coastal waters in the eastern Atlantic Ocean from Mauritania to Namibia. Like other trumpetfish, they eat mainly small fish and often shadow other piscivores while hunting. Aulostomus strigosus was found to be very closely related to A. maculatus, strongly supporting the theory that A. strigosus traversed the Atlantic to come to inhabit the Southeast Pacific.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Atlantic trumpetfish”.