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Astroscopus guttatus Abbott, 1860 
AphiaID: 159251

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Uranoscopidae (Family) > Astroscopus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Astroscopus Brevoort, 1860
Sources  basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

basis of record: Robins, C.R., G.C. Ray, J. Douglass and R. Freund. 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 354 p. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English northern stargazer  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (64 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Western Atlantic: N.Y. to N.C. [details]

Habitat: benthic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159251
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Astroscopus guttatus Abbott, 1860. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159251 on 2013-06-20
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