Species: Astroscopus guttatus, Northern stargazer

Astroscopus guttatus Abbott, 1860

Northern stargazer

Body robust; head large, broad, flattened above, partly covered with skin and bony plates, but without spines; a pair of electric organs under 2 triangular to square scaleless areas behind eyes; rear end of rear nostril groove usually closer to rear end of skin over electric organs than to eye, or not much closer to eye; Y shaped process on top of nape short and broad; eyes small on top of head; front nostril round, before eye; rear nostril extended as a crescent shaped groove behind eye; both nostrils with fringed margins; mouth large, vertical, fringed; spine behind upper corner of operculum blunt and skin covered, not obvious; 2 close-together dorsal fins, III-IV sharp spines; + I, 13-15; anal rays 0, 13-14; pectoral 19-21; body covered with scales; scales in midlateral series about 80.