Bellows Fish (called also trumpet fish and sea snipe), a spiny-rayed fish of the lopho-branchiate or tufted-gilled order, and genus centriscus (Linn.). In this genus the snout is tubular, with a very small mouth at the end, without teeth; the body oval and compressed, with small hard scales trenchant on the abdomen; a spinous dorsal fin very far back, with a strong first spine and a soft dorsal behind it; ventrals united. The C. scolopax (Linn.) is common in the Mediterranean; it is about five inches long, reddish on the back and sides, and silvery on the belly, sometimes with a golden tinge; fins grayish white. The food consists chiefly of minute Crustacea, which are drawn up the cylindrical beak as water is drawn up the pipe of a syringe, or air up the tube of a bellows, the suction power depending on the dilatation of the throat. Its flesh is considered good. It prefers muddy bottoms, in the neighborhood of seaweeds, in moderately deep water.