Fistularia tabacaria, the cornetfish, blue-spotted cornetfish, tobacco trumpetfish or unarmed trumpetfish, 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. This species is of minor importance in commercial fisheries.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Atlantic Bluespotted Cornetfish being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Fistularia commersonii
- Siphonognathus argyrophanes
- Strongylura marina
- Strongylura timucu
- Aulostomus maculatus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Syngnathiformes
- Family
- Fistulariidae
- Genus
- Fistularia
- Species
- Fistularia tabacaria
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