Astroscopus zephyreus Gilbert & Starks 1897
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Uranoscopidae
- genus
- Astroscopus
- species
- Astroscopus zephyreus
description
Electric Stargazer, Pacific Stargazer, or Zephyr Stargazer. To 56 cm (22 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2015). Huntington Beach, southern California (Personal commication: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Fish Collection, San Pedro, California) to Chimbote, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Jesus-Roldan et al. 1993). Benthic; depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1 – 385 m (4 – 1,263 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002).