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HWT-FISH-0151

Blue spotted cornetfish

Fistularia commersonii

Rüppell, 1838

Fistularia commersonii, iNaturalist observation 69849024 (Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, 30 January 2021). Identified by the iNaturalist community (research grade, at least two agreeing identifiers): a community identification, weaker than a museum determination. The photograph is not evidence of occurrence in Saudi waters.
Fistularia commersonii, iNaturalist observation 69849024 (Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, 30 January 2021). Identified by the iNaturalist community (research grade, at least two agreeing identifiers): a community identification, weaker than a museum determination. The photograph is not evidence of occurrence in Saudi waters. © ajott, some rights reserved (CC BY), via iNaturalist observation 69849024 · CC BY 4.0

Species FISTULARIDAE Fish Name used in this encyclopedia

Quick facts

Saudi context in this record

Occurrence records

The encyclopedia holds no published occurrence record for this taxon in Saudi waters yet.

No local name is recorded for it in a Saudi scope either.

Measurements and characters

Specimen total length total length (TL)

94.6 cm

Length of a measured specimen, not the maximum length of the species.

أسماك من المياه الإقليمية للمملكة في البحر الأحمر — مركز أبحاث الثروة السمكية، جـدة لوحات الحصر المصوّرة confidence: officially documented verification: verified

Fishes from Territorial Saudi Red Sea Waters الصفحة المطبوعة 116 confidence: officially documented verification: unverified the evidence is a rendering of what the locator holds, not a verbatim quotation

Documentation status

documented from a measurement

No source is linked to this value.

Names

English common names

Blue spotted cornetfish

Classification

FistulariaGenus FISTULARIDAEFamily SyngnathiformesOrder ActinopterygiiClass ChordataPhylum AnimaliaKingdom

Conservation

No governed conservation assessment is published for this taxon. The absence of a published assessment is not an assessment of low concern.

Distribution

The encyclopedia holds no published scientific distribution records for this taxon.

This section shows source-backed scientific distribution only. Community observations are not listed here and no scientific distribution is inferred from them.

Others in this family

Taxa of the same family. That is a taxonomic relationship, not a statement of resemblance; the encyclopedia holds no diagnostic characters or lookalike relations yet.

Information not yet documented in this record

These fields are not yet documented for this taxon in the encyclopedia. Their absence describes the record, not the animal.

Scientific sources

أسماك من المياه الإقليمية للمملكة في البحر الأحمر — مركز أبحاث الثروة السمكية، جـدة (2011). ط١ ١٤٣٢هـ/٢٠١١م.
Fishes from Territorial Saudi Red Sea Waters (2017). الطبعة الثانية 1438 H - 2017.
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Record last modified: 2026-09-12