Marbled Stargazer

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 6 records
February: 13 records
March: 12 records
April: 29 records
May: 13 records
June: 11 records
July: 6 records
August: 27 records
September: 13 records
October: 24 records
November: 9 records
December: 9 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 40–154 m · Deepest record: 207.5 m

10–20 m: 1 records
20–30 m: 1 records
30–40 m: 5 records
40–50 m: 5 records
50–60 m: 10 records
60–70 m: 4 records
70–80 m: 3 records
80–90 m: 5 records
90–100 m: 0 records
100–110 m: 0 records
110–120 m: 3 records
120+ m: 30 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 20–29 °C

18–20 °C: 1 records
20–22 °C: 3 records
22–24 °C: 0 records
24–26 °C: 4 records
26–28 °C: 69 records
28–30 °C: 6 records

Photos

(c) Bernard DUPONT, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Dan Schofield, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Dan Schofield, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Pauline Walsh Jacobson, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Kai Squires, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Bernard DUPONT, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Kai Squires, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Marbled Stargazer

Names in 3 more languages

Japanese: Meganeuo, メガネウオ
Thai: ปลาอุบแก้มหนามสองแถบ
Simplified Chinese: 向天虎, 含笑, 大頭丁, 眼鏡魚, 雙斑瞻星魚, 雙斑鰧

Similar species

Uranoscopus cognatus
Japanese Stargazer
Uranoscopus japonicus
Blue Stargazer
Uranoscopus oligolepis
flathead
Kathetostoma giganteum
Spotted stargazer
Genyagnus monopterygius
Banded Stonelifter
Kathetostoma laeve

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
201 open-data records from 1843 to 2017.
Species data updated October 31, 2026.