Atlantic trumpetfish

Ostatlantischer trumpet fish ( Aulostomus strigosus )

The East Atlantic trumpet fish ( Aulostomus strigosus ) is common in the Canary and Cape Verde Islands to the coast of tropical West Africa from Mauritania to Namibia in the eastern subtropical and tropical Atlantic from Madeira. Rudie H. Kuiter are also St. Helena as a distribution area.

Features

The East Atlantic trumpet fish is more than 75 cm long. Its elongated, rod-shaped body can be colored highly variable and the fish are able to change color rapidly. Often the fish are brown striped, tail fins stick patterned by three bands. The snout is tubular, a single Bartel sits at the protruding tip of the lower jaw. Dorsal and anal fins each other in the rear third of the body opposite symmetrically and are supported 24 to 25 segmented soft rays. The first dorsal fin has been reduced to solitary spines. The body is covered with small comb scales, head and front back are scaleless. The first four of the vertebrae 62-63 are elongated and increased.

Way of life

The East Atlantic trumpet fish lives close to the coast over rocky areas and reefs and feeds mainly on small fish and shrimp. He lives solitary in most cases, but is occasionally also occur in pairs.