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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Uranoscopidae

Stargazers

WoRMS 125573ITIS 171053GBIF 8603key worms:125573
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171053 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Uranoscopus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Uranoscopidae
Photo · Alberto Alcalá · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The stargazers are a family, Uranoscopidae, of perciform ray-finned fish that have eyes on top of their heads. The family includes about 51 species in eight genera, all marine and found worldwide in shallow and deep saltwaters.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1962 and 2002, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

2
observations
2
records
1
sampling events
1962–2002
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 1 obs · 1 events · 2002 · larva
    name used: Uranoscopidae Stargazers · code 835

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125573%22