Atlantic stargazer

Description:

Stargazers body is dorso-ventrally flattened. Biggest can grow to 30-35 cm. Its head and jaws are rotated upward. Its body is brown in color and can have numerous small light spots.

Habitat:

Common on the Atlantic coast of Europe, Africa and in the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Typicly lives on sandy or muddy sand bottom where it can hide in sand and ambush pray.

Notes:

One of few fish capable of bioelectrogenesis. It is an ambush predator, when attacs it takes less than 30 milliseconds to engulf the prey.