Uranoscopus

<i>Uranoscopus</i>

Uranoscopus

Genus of fishes

Uranoscopus is a genus of stargazer fish from the family Uranoscopidae.[2] The name Uranoscopus is from the Greek, ouranos, "sky" and skopein, "to watch".[3]

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Species

There are 25 species in the genus:[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Uranoscopidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  2. [2]
    Bailly N, ed. (2014). "Uranoscopus Linnaeus, 1758". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  3. [3]
    "Uranoscopus scaber Linnaeus, 1758". Fishbase. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  4. [4]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Uranoscopus in FishBase. February 2018 version.
  5. [5]
    Prokofiev, A. M. (2020). New Species of Stargazers (Uranoscopidae) From the Arafura Sea. Journal of Ichthyology, 60(5), 673–680. doi:10.1134/s0032945220050082
  6. [6]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species related to Uranoscopus rosette". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
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