Chinese trumpetfish

Amazing fact

The Chinese trumpetfish has a long, slender body flattened like a spatula.

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The Chinese trumpetfish has a long, slender body flattened like a spatula.

THE REAL WORLD

The real Chinese trumpetfish

Facts about the real animal.

It swims close beside other fish, hiding behind them to sneak up on its prey.

It catches its prey by sucking it in with its long snout.

Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF

Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.

Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.

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We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.

The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.

This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.