scaber, Uranoscopus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:250 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: NRM 67 (1), 167 (1). Type catalog: Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:263 [ref. 20707]. •Valid as Uranoscopus scaber Linnaeus 1758 -- (Herrera 1896:60 [ref. 39336], Wheeler 1973:451 [ref. 7190], Hureau in Whitehead et al. 1986:955 [ref. 13676], Brüss 1987:965 [ref. 9168], Brüss 1987:54 [ref. 9110], Pietsch 1989:295 [ref. 12541], Roux 1990:898 [ref. 18781], Goren & Dor 1994:58 [ref. 25356], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:119 [ref. 26753], Parin 2003:S21 [ref. 28536], Golani 2005:52 [ref. 37112], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:180 [ref. 28369], Fricke et al. 2007:96 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:122 [ref. 30517], Fricke 2008:51 [ref. 30182], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:57 [ref. 36649], Fricke et al. 2013:143 [ref. 32771], Wirtz et al. 2013:131 [ref. 32972] questionably record, Vilasri 2013:90 [ref. 33304], Smith in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2792 [ref. 34618], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[22] 260 [ref. 36492], Fricke 2018:159 [ref. 36122], Golani & Fricke 2018:136 [ref. 36273], Artüz & Fricke 2019:558 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:293 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:99 [ref. 36864], Bañón et al. 2020:3 [ref. 38888], Bariche & Fricke 2020:98 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:44 [ref. 37519], Abliazov et al. 2021:10 [ref. 38576], Bañón & Maño 2021:80 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:69 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:84 [ref. 39014], Prokofiev 2021:675 [ref. 38659], Arnold 2022:325 [ref. 39949], Niță et al. 2022:115 [ref. 40471]). Current status: Valid as Uranoscopus scaber Linnaeus 1758. Uranoscopidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: British Isles south to Morocco (rarely to Senegal), including Madeira; Red Sea (Mediterranean Sea immigrant). Habitat: brackish, marine.