Longspine snipefish

Longspine snipefish
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Syngnathiformes
Family:	Centriscidae
Subfamily:	Macroramphosinae
Genus:	Macroramphosus
Species:	M. scolopax
Binomial name
Macroramphosus scolopax (Linnaeus, 1758)

The longspine snipefish, bellowfish, common bellowsfish, snipe-fish, snipefish, spine trumpet fish, or trumpetfish, Macroramphosus scolopax, is a snipefish of the genus Macroramphosus, found in the Atlantic, Indian, and west Pacific Oceans, at depths of 25 to 600 metres (82 to 2,000 ft). Its length is up to 20 centimetres (7.9 in).

In the month-long NORFANZ Expedition of 2003 which was examining the biodiversity of the seamounts and slopes of the Norfolk Ridge, five thousand specimens averaging 78gm, were collected from three locations.^[1]

References

1. ^ NORFANZ Voyage Retrieved 2011-10-29.

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Macroramphosus scolopax" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
• Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8

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