GEMMEOUS DRAGONET. 



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ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



THE GEMMEOUS DRAGONET. 

 YELLOW SKULPIN. Cornwall. GOWDIE. Scotland. 



Callionymus lyra, LINNJEUS. 



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



,, ,, Gemmeous Dragonet, P.ENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 221, 



pi. 31. 

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



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



Generic Characters. Head depressed ; eyes on the upper surface, approx- 

 imated ; 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 postaual tubercle, and with the 

 first ray of the first dorsal fin elongated, reaching to the tail ; branchiostegous 

 rays 6 ; preoperculum ending with three spines ; gill-aperture very small, at 

 the upper edge of the operculum. 



THE GEMMEOUS DRAGONET, so called from its bril- 

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



