56 FISIIE?. 



Cai.l'onvmus*, Lii 



The Callionymes or Dragonels,liave two strongly marked characters: 

 first, in tlieir branchios having but a single aperture, consisting of a liolc 

 on each side of the nape: and, secondly, their ventrals, which are placed 

 under the throat, are separate, and larger than the pectorals. Their head 

 is oblong and depressed, their eyes approximated and directed upwards, 

 their intermaxillaries very protractile, and their preopercula elongated be- 

 hind, and terminating in some spines. Their teeth are small and crowd- 

 ed, but there are none in the palate. They are pretty fishes with a smooth 

 skin, whose anterior dorsal, supported by a few setaceous rays, is some- 

 times very elevated. The second dorsal is elongated as well as the anal. 

 They have the same post-anal appendage as the preceding ones. There 

 is no cul de-sac to their stomach, and the natatory bladder and ciEca are 

 Wanting. One of them is common iu the British Channel, the 



Call, lyra, L. ; Bl. IGl ; Lacep. IT, x, 1. (The Gemmeous 

 Dragonet, the Savory, or Doucet). The first dorsal elevated, and 

 the second ray extended into along filament; orange spotted with 

 violet. The Call, dracvnculus, Bl. 162, only differs from it in the 

 first dorsal being short and without the filament; several authors 

 consider it the female. Some others are found in the Mediterra- 

 nean, such as 



Call, lacerta, Cuv. (The Lacert). Rond. 304, and not so well, 

 Call, pusil/us, Laroche, Ann. Mus. XIII, xxv, 16. First dorsal 

 low; the second much elevated in the male; silvery points, and 

 wliite, black-edged lines on the flanks; the caudal long and pointed f. 

 The 



Triciioxotus, Schn. 



Appears to he a mere Cailionym.us with a very elongated body, whose single 

 dorsal and anal have a corresponding length. The two first rays of tiie 

 dorsal, extended into long setae, represent the first dorsal of th.e common 

 Cullionymus, The branchia?, however, are said to be considerably cleft;};. 



CoMLPHoiu;s, Lace.p. 



Have the first dorsal very low; the muzzle oblong, broad, and depressed; 

 gills much cleft, with seven rays; very long pectorals, and what consti- 

 tutes tlieir distinguishing character, a total absence of ventrals. 



But one species is known, from Lake Baikal, the Callionijivushai- 

 calensis, Pall. Nov. Act. Petrop. I, ix. 1 ; a foot long, of a soft 



• Callioni/miis (beautiful name), one of the names of the Uranoscopus among tlie 

 Greeks. Linna'us applied it to the present genus. 



f The Cull, diaraiilhiis, Carmich., Lin. Trans. XII, pi. xxvi, does not appear to me 

 t^) belong to this genus. The Call, in/licus, Lin., is nothing more than the Plali/ce- 

 phaliis spatula, Bl. 42 K Add, < all. cUhara, Cuv ; — C.jacidus, and other new Medi- 

 terranean species; and of species foreign to Europe, the C oriciitalis, Schn., pi vi; 

 C. orellotiis, Pall. VIII. pi. iv, f 13;— C. sagitta, Id. lb., f. 4, 5; and some others to be 

 described in our Icthyology. 



J Trkhonolus sfti-crw-; Bl., Schn., pi. 39. 



