Scientific Name	Bathycallionymus formosanus   Pronounce			by: Lab of Fish Ecol. and Evo., BRCAS
Author	Fricke, 1981	Depth	88 - 200M
Chinese	臺灣䲗	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	鼠䲗科	Economic Fish	No
Family	F453　Callionymidae	Edible Fish	No	Chinese In Mainland China	臺灣䲗
Max Length	17 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	臺灣深水䲗、老鼠、狗圻、臺灣䲗
Distribution in World	Japan to South China Sea	Distribution in Taiwan	PonFu
Habitats	Deep Sea、Benthos、Coastal	Holotype Locality	Taiwan Strait, 25°N, 120°E, ca. 90 m
Synonyms
Reference	臺灣魚類誌(沈等, 1993)；Fishes of Japan(Nakabo, 2013)；Fishbase(2013)；李承運（2012）臺灣海域鼠科魚類之分類與分子演化研究。海洋生物研究所碩士論文。臺灣海洋大學。236頁。  Fricke, R. 1981 沈世傑 編 Shih-Chieh Shen ed. 1993 Nakabo T. 2002 Nakabo T. 2002
Specimen List	ASIZP0062183. ASIZP0067794. ASIZP0067924. ASIZP0068341. ASIZP0068430. ASIZP0068431. ASIZP0068432. ASIZP0072864. ASIZP0072867. ASIZP0073429. ASIZP0073460. ASIZP0073735. ASIZP0073742. ASIZP0803533. ASIZP0803685. ASIZP0913533. ASIZP0913685. ASIZP0915964. ASIZP0915973. ASIZP0915976. ASIZP0916013. CAS46972Holotype. NMMBP03557. NMMBP03574. NMMBP03610. NMMBP03704. NMMBP03772. NMMBP04861. NMMBP04862. NMMBP04863. NMMBP04864. NMMBP04865. NMMBP05246. NMMSTP01527. NTMP0233. NTMP1158. NTOU-AE6111. ...List all 38 records...
Barcode	2010-05-22,張家豪,CO1,100%
Common Name	Dragonet
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Body elongate, depressed. Head extremely depressed. Posterior tip of preopercular barbed. First dorsal fin with IV spines, first dorsal spine elongate and filamentous; second dorsal fin with 9 soft rays, and anterior branch of last ray simple; anal fin with 9 soft rays; caudal fin symmetrical, 2 median rays simple. When fresh, third membrane of frist dorsal fin with dark blotch, lunate in males, oblong in females; black mark on dorsoanterior edge of second dorsal in males, not in females; lower half of anal fin yellow with 1 or 2 blue oblique lines on each membrane in males, anal fin white with distal black margin in females; spots on dorsal side of body not fine.
habitats	Benthic, common on sand bottoms at depths of 90-200 m. Feeds on small bottom organisms.
Distribution	Distributed in the Paciffic coast of souther Japan to the South China Sea. It is found in Penghu Is., western Taiwan.
Utility	No commercial value.