Aulostomoidea
{{Short description|Superfamily of fishes}}
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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Eocene|present|earliest=Early Paleocene}}
| image = Aulostomus maculatus (Trumpetfish - yellow head variation).jpg
| image_caption = Aulostomus maculatus West Atlantic trumpetfish
| image2 = Bluespotted Cornetfish, Fistularia commersonii - also known as the Smooth Flutemouth - at Little Brother, Red Sea, Egypt (SCUBA).jpg
| image2_caption = Fistularia commersonii blue-spotted cornetfish
| taxon = Aulostomoidea
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Aulostomoidei is a superfamily of the order Syngnathiformes, which also contains groups such as the seahorses, pipefishes and dragonets. It is one of two superfamilies which make up the suborder Aulostomoidei within the Syngnathiformes.
Families
There are two families within the Aulostomoidea and they are:{{cite web | url = https://81a86d48-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/fotw5th/home/FotW5Classification.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7crnPmFXqnJpmRlpzLSdqx8GmsCmFXNBj8fAYuPuhFBvCfHo4TahH7eM_yruTzHI27nZRRWWJPRR7U9HopPBRlQK8iW_73EG6FVke6aUjl20fgZXiChDnl-xqMl4L2I-wHwV7D4qcPAQI1vSV6YfFYAm5qb7t5w0rJ_ierkZ91ezIvpQ_5f0kSbFiUx-YYGXP1US1GbwSf-G7sRx4XEikm73VqVA0idVnlkaFjzI53bkuIQY0OQ%3D&attredirects=0 | title = Classification of fishes from Fishes of the World 5th Edition | author1 = Nelson, JS | author2 = Grande, TC | author3 = Wilson, MVH | name-list-style = amp | year = 2016 | accessdate = 10 June 2018 | archive-date = 13 March 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200313140909/https://81a86d48-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/fotw5th/home/FotW5Classification.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7coP7L850hc2KblijBZWJQpzKfQY5GAjnopzwval2xwnqist9WExZkxt7SF4OvVwR9AV965qa40-EYcVHCT05XcutxECBaraK4JiAiyzAxdDFtfYwmxnc4qgd7WRfrmAa9Tcd7C54K_LSySz6efxuNIrxKbUgiBWoJRxaW5HwFGnsUfIyPF6xng6Po7_GYRbA0tP9UW-XtL1aWLcrBineCR5HtI3Up70XgyfXNc6fAtPJOyGe5s%3D&attredirects=1 | url-status = dead }}
These extinct taxa are also known:{{Cite journal |last=Gašparič |first=Rok |last2=Hyžný |first2=Matúš |last3=Hitij |first3=Tomaž |last4=Šoster |first4=Aleš |date=2024-01-08 |title=Late Oligocene decapod crustaceans from the Trbovlje Formation of Slovenia, with a description of two new species of hymenosomatid crabs |url=https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1659-ancient-armored-trumpetfish |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |language=English |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.26879/1312 |issn=1094-8074|doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last=Murray |first=Alison M. |date=2022-12-31 |title=Re-description and phylogenetic relationships of † Protosyngnathus sumatrensis (Teleostei: Syngnathoidei), a freshwater pipefish from the Eocene of Sumatra, Indonesia |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2022.2113832 |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |language=en |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2022.2113832 |issn=1477-2019}}{{Cite journal |last1=Carnevale |first1=G. |last2=Bannikov |first2=Alexandre F. |last3=Marramà |first3=G. |last4=Tyler |first4=James C. |last5=Zorzin. |first5=R. |date=2014 |title=The Bolca Fossil-Lagerstätte: A window into the Eocene World. 5. The Pesciara- Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates. Excursion guide |url=https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/149338/1/Carnevale%20et%20al%202014%20The%20Pesciara%20F-L.%20Fishes%20and%20other%20vertebrates2.pdf |journal=Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=i–xxvii |hdl=10088/25678}}
- Genus †Aulostomoides
- Family †Eekaulostomidae (possibly in the Syngnathoidea instead)
- Family †Fistularioididae
- Family †Parasynarcualidae
- Family †Urosphenidae
Other authorities subsume the Aulostomoidea into the "long-snouted clade" which makes up the suborder Syngnathoidei .{{cite journal | author1 = Ricardo Betancur-R | author2 = Edward O. Wiley | author3 = Gloria Arratia | author4 = Arturo Acero | author5 = Nicolas Bailly | author6 = Masaki Miya | author7 = Guillaume Lecointre | author8 = Guillermo Ortí | display-authors = 3 | year = 2017 | title = Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes | doi = 10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3| journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 17 | issue = 162 | page = 162 | pmc = 5501477 | pmid = 28683774 | bibcode = 2017BMCEE..17..162B | doi-access = free }}