Longspine snipefish
Amazing fact
The longspine snipefish has a long dorsal-fin spine with a saw-like edge.
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The longspine snipefish has a long dorsal-fin spine with a saw-like edge.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Longspine snipefish
- Scientific name
- Macroramphosus scolopax
- Japanese name
- サギフエ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Gasterosteiformes
- Family
- Macroramphosidae
- Genus
- Macroramphosus
A pale pink fish of the seas south of central Honshu (except the Ryukyu Islands) and of the Indian Ocean and western Pacific.
How the Longspine snipefish lives
When young, it lives near the water surface. The young eat small invertebrates drifting in the water. As an adult, it usually lives near the seabed. It sucks up small animals from the seabed with its toothless, tube-shaped mouth.
Georgia Aquarium男鹿水族館GAOBasic data
- Range
- Central Honshu southward excluding the Ryukyu Islands, and the Indian and western Pacific Oceans
Where the Longspine snipefish has been recorded
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 around the world
- 日本語
- サギフエ
- 简体中文
- 长吻鱼
- 繁體中文
- 鷸嘴魚
- Español
- Trompetero
- Français
- Bécasse de mer
- Deutsch
- Gewöhnlicher Schnepfenfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Apara-lápis
- Italiano
- Pesce trombetta
- Русский
- Обыкновенный морской бекас
- Türkçe
- Boru baligi
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — サギフエChecked: 2026-11-04
- 男鹿水族館GAO — サギフエChecked: 2026-11-07
- Georgia Aquarium — Longspine SnipefishChecked: 2026-11-07
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.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
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