FAMILY CALLIONYMIDAE — SCHULTZ 399 



76. Lateral line simple, unbranched, soft rays of dorsal branched 



and last one to its base Yerutius 2* Whitley 



56. Pelvic membrane present and connected with base of pectoral fin 



near its middle; no free opercular flap; gill opening a small 



foramen, superior in position above opercle; lateral line simple; 



orbital tentacle absent. 



8a. Preopercular spine with a basal antrorse spine or one near its 



ventral edge; all rays of dorsal and of anal fins unbranched 



except last one in both fins branched to base. 



Callionymus Linnaeus 

 86. No antrorse spine at base or on ventral side of preopercular spine; 

 first soft dorsal ray usually unbranched, all the rest branched 

 (except in young), the last one to its base; anal rays un- 

 branched, except last one or two, the last to its base. 



Synchiropus Gill 

 2a. The first ray of pelvic not connected by a membrane with the next ray; 



gill opening behind opercle Dactylopus *^ Gill 



16. A single dorsal fin, the spiny part lacking; gill opening superior in position 

 at rear of opercle; pelvic membrane not connected with pectoral base; 

 lateral line simple; orbital tentacle lacking; no antrorse spine near basal 

 part of preopercular spine; soft dorsal rays branched at tips, last one to 

 its base; all anal rays unbranched, except last is branched to base; 

 lower lip fringed Draculo *" Snyder 



Genus DIPLOGRAMMUS Gill 



Diplogrammus Gill, Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 8, p. 143, 1865 



(type species, Callionymus goramensis Bleeker). 

 Calymmichthys Jordan and Thompson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 4, 



p. 296, pi. 36, fig. 2, 1914 (type species, Calymmichthys xenicus Jordan and 



Thompson), 

 Diacallionymus Fowlek, Proc. U. S. National Museum, vol. 90, p. 29, 1941 



(type species, Callionymus goramensis Bleeker). 

 Dermosteira Schultz, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 180, p. 267, fig. 26, 1943 (type species, 



Dermosteira dorotheae Schultz). 



The figure of Calymmichthys xenicus by Jordan and Thompson, 

 does not show the (pp. 296-7) ''thin but prominent fold of skin ex- 

 tending from pectoral tips to base of caudal . . . along side of body." 

 However, a study of the holotype, CM 6027, reveals that their state- 

 ment is correct. This fold of skin places C. xenicus as a species close 

 to Callionymus goramensis, C. cooki Giinther, and D. dorotheae Schultz. 

 Fowler (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 93, p. 92, figs. 5, 

 6, 1941) described C. floridae from Florida, possibly the first record 

 for this genus in the Atlantic. 



M Yerutim Whitley, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 18, p. 115, 1931 (type species, C. apricus McCulloch). 



» Dactylopus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1859, p. 130, 1860 (type species C. dactylopm Bennett 

 = D. bennetti Gill). 



Vulsus Giiuthcr, Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum, vol. 3, p. 151, 1861 (type species, C, 

 dactylopus Bennett). 



*» Draculo Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 40, p. 545, 1911 (type species, Draculo mirabilis Snyder). 



