Scientific Name	Repomucenus ornatipinnis   Pronounce			No picture was not be chosen to represent this species.
Author	(Regan, 1905)	Depth	- M
Chinese	飾鰭斜棘䲗	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	鼠䲗科	Economic Fish	No
Family	F453　Callionymidae	Edible Fish	No	Chinese In Mainland China	飾鰭斜棘䲗
Max Length	17 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	老鼠、狗圻
Distribution in World	North West Pacific Ocean	Distribution in Taiwan	North
Habitats	Benthos、Coastal	Holotype Locality	Inland Sea of Japan
Synonyms	Callionymus ornatipinnis
Reference	臺灣魚類誌(沈等, 1993)；Fishes of Japan(Nakabo, 2002)；Fishbase(2006)  Regan, C. T. 1905 Nakabo, T. etc. 1986 沈世傑 編 Shih-Chieh Shen ed. 1993 Nakabo T. 2002 Nakabo T. 2002
Specimen List
Common Name	Dragonet
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Body elongate, depressed. Head extremely depressed. Preopercular spine short with 2-4 processes on inner side. In males, 1st and 2nd dorsal spines elongate and filamentous; single rows of small black spots on 2nd dorsal fin; anal fin uniformly pale grey. In females, the posterior half of the 1st dorsal fin black. In females and young males, lower side of body with many oblong marks. Caudal fin with small dark spots on upper half and uniformly dark on lower half, in both sexes.
habitats	Inhabits sand and mud bottoms in shallow waters.
Distribution	Distributed in northern coast of Japan, Inland Sea of Japan, Ariake Sea, the East China Sea and Taiwan. It is found in northern Taiwanese waters.
Utility	No commercial value.