Long-tail dragonet

Long-tail dragonet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Callionymidae
Genus: Callionymus
Species: C. neptunius
Binomial name
Callionymus neptunius
(Seale, 1910)

Callionymus neptunius, the Long-tail dragon, is a species of dragonet native to the Pacific waters around Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the Philippines where it occurs at depths of from 3 to 6 metres (9.8 to 19.7 ft). Males of this species grows to a length of 13 centimetres (5.1 in) TL while the females are smaller.[1]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Callionymus neptunius" in FishBase. February 2013 version.


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