Fistularia petimba Lacepede, 1803

Yennawar, Prasanna, Mohapatra, Anil & Tudu, Prasad Chandra, 2017, An account of Ichthyofauna of Digha coast, West Bengal, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (1), pp. 4-4 : 4-

8. Fistularia petimba Lacepede, 1803

Red cornetfish (Figure 9)

Materials examined: 3ex.; 30.12.2011; Mohana, Digha; Reg. No. MARC /ZSI/F1828 .

Description: Body elongate, fleshy and depressed. Mouth small, at the tip of tubular snout. Teeth small in jaws. Dorsal and anal fin opposite and short based. Lateral line arched and continuing posteriorly onto an elongate filament produced by the middle 2 caudal fin rays.

Distribution: Western & Eastern Atlantic, Indo-Pacific, north to southern Japan and the Ogasawara Islands, south to Victoria, Australia.

Remarks: The fish has subsistence fisheries.