🦋 Family

Callionymidae

8 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › › Perciformes › Callionymidae

Synchiropus splendidus, the mandarinfish, is a small reef fish famous for getting its blue color from cellular pigment.

Synchiropus morrisoni, or Morrison's dragonet, is a small reef fish found across the western and central Indo-Pacific.

Risso's dragonet (Callionymus risso) is a small dragonet species native to the Mediterranean and Black Seas, rarely seen off Portugal.

Callionymus pusillus, the sailfin dragonet, is a common small benthic dragonet found in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea.

Callionymus lyra (common dragonet) is a demersal North Atlantic fish found down to 430m, with minor commercial use.

Goodlad's stinkfish (Callionymus goodladi) is a bottom-dwelling dragonet native to waters off northwestern Australia.

Kuiter's dragonet (Dactylopus kuiteri) is a tropical Indo-Pacific marine dragonet species that grows up to 15 cm TL.

The fingered dragonet (Dactylopus dactylopus) is a central Indo-Pacific marine dragonet species that is sold in the aquarium trade.

Related Families

Labridae 155 species Pomacentridae 142 species Gobiidae 120 species Serranidae 103 species Blenniidae 86 species Chaetodontidae 82 species Percidae 67 species Carangidae 53 species

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