Blue Stargazer
Uranoscopus oligolepis
- Usual depth44–107 m
- Water temperature25–29 °C
- Best monthsNovember and December
- How commonRare
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 0 records
- February: 1 records
- March: 0 records
- April: 1 records
- May: 0 records
- June: 0 records
- July: 1 records
- August: 0 records
- September: 0 records
- October: 0 records
- November: 14 records
- December: 15 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 44–107 m · Deepest record: 160 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 25–29 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Blue Stargazer, Drab Nackednape Stargazer, Drab Nakednape Stargazer, Naked-nape Stargazer
Names in 2 more languages
- Japanese
- Kibiremishima, キビレミシマ
- Simplified Chinese
- 向天虎, 含笑, 大頭丁, 寡鱗瞻星魚, 寡鱗鰧, 少鱗鰧, 眼鏡魚
Similar species
- Marbled Stargazer
Uranoscopus bicinctus
- Japanese Stargazer
Uranoscopus japonicus
- bluespotted stargazer
Xenocephalus elongatus
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).
- 79 open-data records from 1878 to 2014.
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