Dragonets
Callionymidae
Dragonets are small, perciform, marine fish of the diverse family Callionymidae (from the Greek kallis, "beautiful" and onyma, "name") found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific. They are benthic organisms, spending most of their time near the sandy bottoms, at a depth of roughly two hundred meters. There exist 139 species of the fish, in nineteen genera.
12 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 201 known species
Callionymus
genusCallionymus
Synchiropus
genusSynchiropus
Dactylopus
genusDactylopus
Diplogrammus
genusDiplogrammus
Spotted Dragonets
genusChalinops
Whitespotted Dragonets
genusOrbonymus
Draculo
genusDraculo
Tentacled Dragonets
genusAnaora
Protogrammus
genusProtogrammus
Flap-gilled Dragonets
genusEleutherochir
Freshwater Dragonets
genusTonlesapia
Ladder Dragonets
genusParacallionymus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 56074.