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Dragonets

Dragonets

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Dragonet.

Dragonets are small percomorph marine fish of the diverse family Callionymidae (from the Greekkallis, "beautiful" and onyma, "name") found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific. They are benthic organisms, spending most of their time near the sandy bottoms, at a depth of roughly two hundred meters. There exist 139 species of the fish, in nineteen genera.