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Article Contributors

Primary Contributors

Elanor Bell
Southern Ocean Research Partnership Coordinator, Australian Marine Mammal Centre, Hobart, Australia.
Amanda Vincent

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Added video.	Amy Tikkanen	May 21, 2015
	Illustration of the Chinese trumpetfish (Aulostomus chinensis) added.	John P. Rafferty	Apr 11, 2014
	Added photograph.	Amy Tikkanen	May 28, 2013
	Added new Web site: Australian Museum Online - Trumpetfish.	Neha Parwani	Apr 13, 2009
	Media added.	John P. Rafferty	Jan 06, 2009
	Article thoroughly revised and updated.	John P. Rafferty	Jan 06, 2009
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998