Dactyloscopus tridigitatus

Dactyloscopus tridigitatus
Conservation status
	Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Dactyloscopidae
Genus:	Dactyloscopus
Species:	D. tridigitatus
Binomial name
	Dactyloscopus tridigitatus; T. N. Gill, 1859
Synonyms
	Cokeridia kathetostoma J. de P. Carvalho, 1957; Dactyloscopus kathetostomus (J. de P. Carvalho, 1957); Paragillelus macropoma J. de P. Carvalho & S. Y. Pinto, 1965; Tamandareia oliveirai J. de P. Carvalho & S. Y. Pinto, 1965;

Dactyloscopus tridigitatus, the sand stargazer, is a species of sand stargazer native to the Atlantic coasts of the Americas from Florida, United States to Brazil as well as in the Caribbean Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. It is found in sandy areas around reefs at depths of from 0 to 29 metres (0 to 95 ft). It is an ambush predator, burying itself nearly completely in the sand and attacking prey animals that happen by. It can reach a maximum length of 9 centimetres (3.5 in) TL.^[1]

References

^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Dactyloscopus tridigitatus" in FishBase. April 2013 version.

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[1] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Dactyloscopus tridigitatus" in FishBase. April 2013 version.

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