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.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Dactyloscopidae |
| Genus: | Dactyloscopus |
| Species: | D. tridigitatus
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| Dactyloscopus tridigitatus T. N. Gill, 1859
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References edit
- ^ Williams, J.T. (2014). "Dactyloscopus tridigitatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T46104167A48367585. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T46104167A48367585.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Dactyloscopus tridigitatus" in FishBase. April 2013 version.
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