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GEMMEOUS DRAGONET. Class IV. 



E C T, 



II. 



JUGULAR. 



XVII. 

 DRAGO- 

 NET. 



Upper lip doubled. 



Eyes near each other. 



Two breathing apertures on the hind part of the 



head. 

 Firft rays of the dorfal fin very long. 



6g. Gem me- La tierce efpece de Exocetus ? 

 OUS. JBelon, 218. 



Dracunculus. Rondel. 304. 



Dracunculus, aranei fpecies 

 altera. Gefner pifc. 80. 



Dragon fifh. Marten's Spitz- 

 berg, 123. 



Yellow Gurnard. Phil. Tranf. 

 No. 293. 



Lyra Harvicenfis. Pet. Gax, 

 Tab. 22. Dale Harwich, 

 431. 



Callionymus Lyra. C. dor- 

 falis prioris radiis longitu- 

 dine corporis. Lin.Jyfi. 433. 

 Faun. Suec. No. 110. 



Uranofcopus. Grononj. Zooph. 

 No. 206. 



Floy-fifke. Po?itop. Norway, 



II. III. 



Dracunculus marinus. Borlafe 

 Cornwall, 270. Seb. Muf, 



III. 92. Tab. 30. fig. 7. 



Name, 



T INNsEUS has given this genus the name of 

 m *- 4 Callionymus, a fifh mentioned by feveral of 

 the antients •, but the notices they have left of it 

 are fo very flight, as to render it difficult to deter- 

 mine what fpecies they intended. * Pliny makes it 

 a fynonym to the Uranofcopus, a fifh frequent in the 

 Italian feas, but very different from our Dragonet, a 



Lib. 



XXXII. C. II 



name 



