Ceratias uranoscopus, the stargazing seadevil, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ceratiidae, the warty sea devils.

The fish is both bathypelagic and mesopelagic and can typically be found at depths ranging from 500 to 1,000 metres (1,600 to 3,300 ft).

It is endemic to tropical waters and can be found in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

Ceratias uranoscopus was first formally described in 1877 by the Scottish-Canadian oceanographer Sir John Murray with its type locality given as the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, between Canary and Cape Verde islands at 22°18'N, 22°02'W from a depth between 0 and 4,392 m (0 and 14,409 ft).

[3] The genus Ceratias is classified by the 5th edition of Fishes of the World as belonging to the family Ceratiidae in the suborder Ceratioidei of the anglerfish order Lophiiformes.