OEMMEOUS DRAGONET 



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THE GEMMEOUS DRAGONET. 

 YELLOW SKULPIN. Cornwall. GOWDIE. Scotland. 



Callionymus lyra, LINN./EUS. 



,, ,, CVVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p, 247. 



,, ,, Cuv. et VALENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. xii. p. 266. 



,, ,, Gemmeoiii Dragonet, PENN. Brit.Zool. vol. iii. p. 221, pi. 31. 



,, ,, ,, ,, DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 9. 



,, ,, ,, ,, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 248, sp. 126. 



,, ,, ,, ,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 388. 



CALLIONYMUS. Generic Cliaracters. Head depressed ; eyes on the upper 

 surface, approximated ; body smooth, without scales ; two dorsal fins, distinct; 

 ventral fins separated under the throat, larger than the pectoral fins ; mouth 

 capable of great protrusion ; teeth small, numerous, on the bones of the jaws 

 only ; the males, and probably the males only, with a postanal tubercle, and 

 with the first ray of the first dorsal fin elongated, reaching to the tail ; branchi- 

 ostegous rays 6 ; preoperculum ending with three spines : gill-aperture very 

 small, at the upper edge of the operculum. 



THE GE3iMEous DRAGONET, so called from its bril- 

 liant gem-like colours, was first described as a British fish 

 by Dr. Tyson, in the twenty-fourth volume of the Philoso- 



