Moderated: Our POTW Participant Onsene from Slovenia asked:
“I would like to know this fish name!!!” for his picture of
the week in 2006, week 47 * click on the link review it.

Here in Hawaii we call them Cornet Fish.

I have a photo of one on my website at:

is it a type of trumpet fish these cornet fish ?

Not sure if they are similar. They are shown together in Hoover’s Hawaii Fish book.
The Trumpetfish is Aulostomidae and the Cornetfish is Fistulariidae

Hi guys,

it´s hard to identify on the picture and there are at least 30 pretty similar looking fish of this kind,
but it´s definitely not some kind of trumpet or cornet fish.  It belongs to the family of Syngnathinae,
and my guess would be that it´s a Corythoichthys Egypt.
Whatever that thing might be called in English, I don´t know.

Regards, Marc

I am definately disagreeing with that .. it is not a pipefish .. it’s way too big

I think that is way more like it
Juvenile Trumpetfish (Aulostomus chinensis)

corent and trumpet fish from what I can make out are basically the same just regional name differences.

That’s a Trumpetfish…

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Hi again,

I don´t know, what I was thinking, of course it´s not a pipefish.
But then it could be some kind of fistularia (cornet fish) and not a trumpet fish, though by now I also tend towards a juvenile trumpet fish.
@ aqua dream: What makes you so sure about it ?