Đông Phi, Ấn Độ Dương, Thái Bình Dương, Hồng Hải, Ấn Độ, Australia, New Guinea, Samoa, Hawaii, Indonesia, Philippiness, Thái Lan, Nhật Bản, Trung Quốc, Việt Nam. Vịnh Bắc Bộ, Miền Trung.
Morphological description (GBIF)(Mô tả hình thái (GBIF))
Description: Body elongate, fleshy and depressed. Mouth small, at the tip of tubular snout. Teeth small in jaws. Dorsal and anal fin opposite and short based. Lateral line arched and continuing posteriorly onto an elongate filament produced by the middle 2 caudal fin rays.
Fistularia serrata Gunther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., Vol.3, p.533, 1861 in part; Jenkins, 1903; Jordan and Seale, 1907; Evermann and Seale, 1907; Fowler, 1918.
Fistularia villosa Klunzinger, Abh. Zool.- Bot. Gesell. Wien, Vol.21, p.516, 1871; Weber and de Beaufort, 1922; Herre, 1934.
Fistularia petimba Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Middle America, Vol.1, p.758, 1896; not of Lacepede; Jordan and Snyder, 1900; Jordan and Starks, 1902.
