trunkfish

In some regions, the smooth trunkfish is caught for human consumption.

The smooth trunkfish is normally solitary but sometimes moves around in small groups.

The Spotted Trunkfish is a member of the family Ostraciidae.

Filefish are closely related to the triggerfish, pufferfish and trunkfish.

According to Fontaneda, a lesser part of the diet consisted of trunkfish and lobster.

Predators however, as large as nurse sharks, can die as a result of eating a trunkfish.

Other common names include sharpfin sunfish, point-tailed sunfish, and trunkfish.

The spotted trunkfish is a reef fish which secretes a colourless ciguatera toxin from glands on its skin when touched.

Lactophrys bicaudalis (Spotted trunkfish)

Lactophrys trigonus (Buffalo trunkfish)

Ostracion cyanurus (Bluetail trunkfish)

Ostracion trachys (Roughskin trunkfish)

The fish close to the shore, visible while snorkeling, include: parrotfish, squirrelfish, trunkfish, trumpetfish, goatfish, grunt, and tang.

Certain other fish species, such as the smooth trunkfish (Rhinesomus triqueter) and the graysby (Cephalopholis cruentata), were not chased away.

The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis, belongs to the Ostraciidae family and is closely related to boxfish and trunkfish.

Some fishes, such as puffer fish, filefish and trunkfish, rely on pectoral fins for swimming and hardly use tail fins at all.

Rhinesomus triqueter, the smooth trunkfish, is a species of boxfish found on and near reefs in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and subtropical parts of the western Atlantic Ocean.

Common fish off Gibney Beach include: goatfish, grunts, tangs, parrotfish, angelfish, squirrelfish, trunkfish, trumpetfish, yellowtail snapper, blue runners, groupers, butterflyfish, damselfish, squirrelfish, porcupinefish, and wrasses, as well as octopuses and various types of eels.

They are often called elephantfish due to a long protrusion below their mouths used to detect buried invertebrates that is suggestive of a tusk or trunk (some such as Marcusenius senegalensis gracilis are sometimes called Trunkfish though this term is usually associated with an unrelated group of fish).

I wish I could see a spotted trunkfish, a longnose gar, a celestial goldfish, a forceps butterfish, a black-devil, a John Dory, a lookdown, a lionfish, a hogfish, a roosterfish, every living kind of angelfish, and all the ravishing beauties on all the reefs in all the tropical seas.