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Trachicephalus
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Trachicephalus

Trachicephalus uranoscopus, the star-gazing stonefish, is a species of stonefish native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean where it is found on muddy bottoms in estuaries. This venomous species is also a minor component of local commercial fisheries. This species grows to a length of 8 centimetres (3.1 in) SL. This species is the only known member of the genus Trachicephalus.

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1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species

Stargazing stonefish

speciesTrachicephalus uranoscopus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 64512.