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Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Black Sea elongate body tête aplatie, yeux au sommet long second dorsal fin a anal épine dorsale bearing venomous glands enfouissent souvent dans les sédiments, les yeux et les épines dorsales dépassant seuls nonguarders
Identification key to trachinidae	Identification key to Uranoscopidae

Etymologies		Source
Trachinidae	Greek, trachys, -eia, -ys = rough	fishbase



Echiichthys vipera
fishbase / doris / en.wiki / marlin / cotebleue / glaucus	Synonymes	Cuvier, 1829 / NE / ITIS 630409

2012 Limnos (Gr) ©Roberto Pillon (via fishbase)	2014 Bibione (It) ©Roberto Pillon (via fishbase)	2014 Bibione (It) ©Roberto Pillon (via fishbase)
E-Atlantiq & Méditerranée	Petite vive	subtropical
1-150m / 10-15 cm	oviparous, dioecism, fécondation externe, nonguarder	courant, littoral and benthic, rest on the bottom, often buried with eyes and tip of first dorsal fin exposed; venomous
Echiichthys vipera



Trachinus araneus
fishbase / cotebleue / doris	Synonymes	Cuvier, 1829 / LC / ITIS 170993

Sardaigne (It) ©Roberto Pillon (via Wikimedia Commons)	Sardaigne (It) ©Roberto Pillon (via Wikimedia Commons)	2010 Corse by Roberto Pillon (via fishbase)
E-Atlantiq & Méditerranée	Vive araignée	subtropical
0-100m / 30-45 cm	oviparous, dioecism, fécondation externe, nonguarder	venomous; burrowing in the bottom
Trachinus araneus



Trachinus draco
fishbase / en.wiki / doris / cotebleue	Synonymes	Linnaeus, 1758 / LC / ITIS 170992

2015 Gibraltar ©whodden (via Encyclopedia of Life)	2015 Gibraltar ©whodden (via Encyclopedia of Life)	2010 Paros (Gr) by Roberto Pillon (via fishbase)


Tuscany (It) ©Stefano Guerrieri (via Wikimedia Commons)	2010 Corse by Roberto Pillon (via fishbase)	2011Karpathos (Gr) by Roberto Pillon (via fishbase)
E-Atlantiq, Méditerranée & Black Sea	Vive commune	temperate
1-30m (jsq 150m) / 25-53cm / 1.860kg	oviparous, dioecism, fécondation externe, nonguarder; venomous	Rest on the bottom, often buried with eyes and tip of first dorsal fin exposed, at night they swim around freely, even pelagically
Trachinus draco



Trachinus radiatus
fishbase / doris / cotebleue	Synonymes	Cuvier, 1829 / LC / ITIS 170994

Koufonissi (Greece) ©Roberto Pillon (via Wikimedia Commons)	Croatie ©Roberto Pillon (via Wikimedia Commons)	2010 Koufonissi (Greece) ©Roberto Pillon (via Wikimedia Commons)


2010 Paros (Gr) ©Roberto Pillon (via Wikimedia Commons)	2011 Croatie ©Roberto Pillon (via Wikimedia Commons)
E-Atlantiq & Méditerranée	Vive à tête rayonnée	subtropical
0-150m / 25-50 cm	oviparous, dioecism, fécondation externe, nonguarder	venomous; demersal
Trachinus radiatus



Uranoscopus scaber
fishbase / cotebleue / doris	Synonymes	Linnaeus, 1758 / LC / ITIS 171078

2010 Paros (Gr) by Roberto Pillon (via fishbase)	2010 AntiParos (Greece) by Roberto Pillon (via fishbase)	2010 Croatia by Roberto Pillon (via fishbase)
E-Atlantique & Méditerranée	Uranoscope	subtropical
15-400m / 22-40cm / 0.940kg	dioecism, ovipare, openwater, fertilisation externe, non guarder;	venomous; demersal, buried in the sand or mud; Equipped with an acoustic apparatus that generates both acoustic and electric pulses
Uranoscopus scaber

MàJ 13/03/2023