Scientific name:
Uranoscopidae

Natural spread:
tropical and moderately-warm seas

in approximately 25 types lives the Himmelsgucker as ground-inhabitants at the coasts and in bigger depths of all tropical and moderately-warm seas. They lie usually buried in the ground-reasons, and only the upper side of the head with the quite superior eyes (name)!) is visible. With some types, electric organs, that lie densely behind the eyes and give electric shocks to up to 50 volts, are trained. Hereby loot-animals can locate and are repulsed enemies. Behind the gill-cover and over the flipper, most types jederseits carry a poison-thorn. A worm-good thread at the lower jaw, that can execute winding movements, is used for the luring the loot-animals with some Himmelsguckern.

In the eastern Atlantic, the usual Himmelsgucker (Uranoscopus scaber), named also Meerpfaff, lives it long on the African coast as far as to Portugal, in the Mediterranean and in the black sea up to 30 cm becomes. At the north - and it are South American Atlantic-coast until northern Himmelsgucker (Astroscopus guttatus) long to 55 cm and the smaller southern Himmelsgucker (Astroscopus ygraecum) gives a home.