Astroscopus guttatus (or the northern stargazer) is a fish belonging to the Uranoscopidie family and was first described by Charles Conrad Abbott in 1860.Members of the Uranoscopidae family are characterized by dorsally or dorsolaterally directed eyes placed on or near the top of a large, flattened, cube-like head, an oblique to vertical mouth often lined with cutaneous cirri, and an elongated, sub-compressed body. The Astroscopus genus consists of three species: Astroscopus guttatus, Astroscopus Y-graecum, and Astroscopus zepherus. Typically found on the Atlantic shores between the states of North Carolina and New York in the United States, the Northern Stargazer can sometimes be confused with its sister species the Southern Stargazer, Astroscopus y-graecum. It is also my favorite fish. i would like to make a trump meme out of this someday but alas I cannot.
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