A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Uranoscopidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| northern stargazerAstroscopus guttatus Abbott, 1860 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Genyagnus monopterygius (Schneider, 1801) | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ichthyscopus fasciatus Haysom, 1957 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ichthyscopus insperatus Mees, 1960 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ichthyscopus pollicaris Vilasri, Ho, Kawai & Gomon, 2019 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ichthyscopus spinosus Mees, 1960 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| lancer stargazerKathetostoma albigutta Bean, 1892 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| smooth stargazerKathetostoma averruncus Jordan & Bollman, 1890 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kathetostoma binigrasella Gomon & Roberts, 2011 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kathetostoma canaster Gomon & Last, 1987 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kathetostoma cubanum Barbour, 1941 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kathetostoma fluviatilis Hutton, 1872 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kathetostoma giganteum Haast, 1873 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kathetostoma nigrofasciatum Waite & McCulloch, 1915 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pleuroscopus pseudodorsalis Barnard, 1927 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uranoscopus affinis Cuvier, 1829 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uranoscopus albesca Regan, 1915 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uranoscopus chinensis Guichenot, 1882 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uranoscopus cognatus Cantor, 1849 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uranoscopus fuscomaculatus Kner, 1868 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uranoscopus guttatus Cuvier, 1829 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uranoscopus japonicus Houttuyn, 1782 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uranoscopus kaianus Günther, 1880 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uranoscopus kishimotoi Fricke, 2018 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uranoscopus rosette Randall & Arnold, 2012 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| star-gazerUranoscopus scaber Linnaeus, 1758 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uranoscopus tectiformis Schwarzhans, 2019 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Uranoscopus tosae (Jordan & Hubbs, 1925) | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uranoscopus turbisquamatus (Okamura & Kishimoto, 1993) | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Xenocephalus armatus Kaup, 1858 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Xenocephalus australiensis (Kishimoto, 1989) | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Xenocephalus cribratus (Kishimoto, 1989) | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Xenocephalus egregius (Jordan & Thompson, 1905) | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Xenocephalus elongatus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Xenocephalus otaianus Schwarzhans, 2019 | UranoscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.