Long Nosed Snipefish

by Miroslava Jurcik

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Long Nosed Snipefish

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Miroslava Jurcik

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The longspine snipefish, bellowfish, common bellowsfish, snipe-fish, snipefish, spine trumpet fish, or trumpetfish, Macroramphosus scolopax, is a snipefish of the genus Macroramphosus. It is also known as the slender snipefish off the South African coast.
Known in Australian waters from Cape York, Queensland, south to New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and across to the western edge of the Great Australian Bight, Western Australia.
Elsewhere, widespread in subtropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic (including in the Mediterranean Sea) and Indo-West Pacific Oceans.  
A schooling species, the Common Bellowsfish lives near the bottom on the continental shelf, upper continental slope, and oceanic seamounts at 60-500m.
Although the Common Bellowsfish reaches a maximum total length of 228 mm (Atlantic Ocean, off Portugal), the species reportedly grows to 180mm in Australian waters.
Body reddish-pink to orange above, pale to silvery below, fins pink; pelagic juveniles overall silvery-blue.
They are carnivorous predators that feed near the bottom on small bottom-dwelling invertebrates. Prey items are sucked into their long snouts include crustaceans (amphipods, copepods, shrimps and small crabs), polychaete worms and foraminiferans.
Bellowsfishes are food for many other fish species, including commercially important species such as John Dory (Zeus faber), catsharks, mackerels and hake.
(ref. fishes of Australia)

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December 6th, 2017

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