#2176 · 🐟 fish
Blue-spotted Cornetfish
🇳🇱 Fluitvis ·Fistularia commersonii
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what is it?
The bluespotted cornetfish , smooth cornetfish , or smooth flutemouth , Fistularia commersonii , is a marine fish which belongs to the family Fistulariidae. This very long and slender reef-dweller belongs to the same order as the pipefishes and seahorses, called Syngnathiformes.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 8,986 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Eduard Rüppell in 1838 (188 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Blue-spotted Cornetfish
- Nederlands
- Fluitvis
- scientific name
- Fistularia commersonii
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Syngnathiformes
- family
- Fistulariidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 167
- sightings worldwide
- 8,986
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1838 by Eduard Rüppell
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 57399, Wikidata Q671948, GBIF 5200938, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.