146 Hawaiian Fishes 



some of the individuals have two vertical rows of light spots near the 

 end of the trunk and one or two black spots on the tail. They reach a 

 length of two feet and are quite common in the Hawaiian Islands. 



This fish is widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific area and is found 

 in the Leeward Islands of the Hawaiian Archipelago. 



THE CORNET OR FLUTE MOUTH FISH FAMILY 



67 Family Fistulariidae 

 The cornet fishes have very long, slender, flat bodies and a long tube- 

 like snout ending in a pair of toothless jaws. Their bodies are without 

 scales, but they have bony plates on the body in their stead. They are 

 all dull red or dull green in color and reach a length of about three feet. 

 They live in warm tropical seas and swim in shallow water near the 

 surface. The family is related to the sticklebacks. They include one genus 

 and four or five species, two of which are known from the Hawaiian 

 Islands. 



Cornet Fish or Nunu Peke 



67-1 Fistularia petimba Lacepede 



This fish is a greenish, brownish or reddish color in life, whitish 

 beneath, and is marked by indistinct cross bars. Large specimens will 

 reach a length of over three feet. This fish is caught by birds and carried 

 ashore to be eaten. It is commonly sold in commercial fish markets. 



This cornet fish is very widely distributed and is recorded from nearly 

 all warm seas. It is found in all of the waters from the Philippines, Guam, 

 and Hawaii southward to Tahiti and the New Hebrides. 



Cornet Fish 



67-2 Fistularia villosa Klunzinger 

 This cornet fish is found from the Red Sea eastward through all of 

 the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia as far as the Hawaiian 

 Islands. _ _,i 



THE SHRIMP FISH FAMILY 



68 Family Centriscidae (Amphisilidae) 

 The members of the shrimp fish family are all covered by a long, 

 translucent, bony plate. The snout is long and has a toothless mouth at 

 the end. The family is an East Indian group and is named shrimp fishes 

 because its members are transparent like shrimps. 



Only one species in this family is known from the Hawaiian Islands. 



