Scientific Name	Callionymus pleurostictus   Pronounce			by: ©Randall, John E.
Author	Fricke, 1982	Depth	0 - 35M
Chinese	胡麻䲗	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	鼠䲗科	Economic Fish	Yes
Family	F453　Callionymidae	Edible Fish	No	Chinese In Mainland China	白臀䲗
Max Length	4 cm	Aquarium Fish	Yes	Common Name	老鼠、狗圻
Distribution in World	Australia	Distribution in Taiwan	PonFu
Habitats	Benthos、Coastal	Holotype Locality	Bay of Nhatrang, Vietnam, 12°2'06"N, 109°7'30"E.
Synonyms	Pseudocalliurichthys pleurostictus
Reference	Chen, C. H. 2004. Checklist of the fishes of Penghu. Fisheries Research Institute, Council of Agriculture. FRI Special Publication No. 4: 175 pp. (in Chinese)；Fishes of Japan(Nakabo, 2002)；Fishbase(2006)  Fricke, R. 1982 Nakabo T. 2002 Nakabo T. 2002 陳春暉 2004
Specimen List
Common Name	Dragonet
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Body elongate, depressed. Head extremely depressed. Preopercular spine straight with 5-6 very short processes on inner side. In males, 1st dorsal spines elongate and filamentous; vertral sidae of body with many small dark spots; tips of vertral side of lower jaw black; anal fin uniformly pale dark. In females, 1st dorsal-fin membrane between 2nd to 4th with a black blotch; anal fin uniformly white.
habitats	Inhabits shallow sandy bottoms.
Distribution	Distributed in the western Pacific, including Ryukyu Islands, Viet Nam, Gulf of Thailand, Indonesia, and northern Australia. It is found in Penghu Islands.
Utility	Aquarium fishes.