Name, 
330 DRAGONET.  ‘ClafIv. 
Sail, § UG if ame 
Genus XVII. 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. Draconer. 
hos The ™ Do Rook G, Ov Ni eae 
La tierce efpece de Exocetus? Callionymus Lyra. C. dorfalis 
Belon. 218. prioris radiis longitudine 
Dracunculus. Rondel. 304. corporis. Lin. fyft. 433. 
Dracunculus, aranei {pecies al- Faun. fuec. No. 110. 
tera. Ge/ner pife. 80. Uranofcopus, Gronev. Zooph. 
marci oe Marten’s Spitz- No. 206. 
berg. Floy-fitke. Pontop. Norway, ii. 
Yellow en Phil. Tranf. ili. 
No. 293- Dracunculus marinus. Borla/e 
Lyra Harvicenfis. Pet. Gaz. Cornwall. 270. Seb. Muf; itt. 
tab. 22. Dale Harwich. 431. 92. tab. 30. fig. 7- 
INNZUS has given this genus the name of 
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 determine what 
fpecies they intended. * Pliny makes it a fynonym. 
to the Urano/copus, a fifh frequent in the Italian feas, 
but very different from our Dragonet, a name we 
* Lib. xxxil. ¢ de h 
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