Picturesque Dragonet
Synchiropus picturatus
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Fish
The picturesque dragonet is a brightly colored marine ray-finned fish from the dragonet family Callionymidae. It is native to the Indo-West Pacific: Philippines, eastern Indonesia and northwest Australia. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade, where it is also called the spotted mandarin, psychedelic mandarin or target mandarin.
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Syngnathiformes
- Family
- Callionymidae
- Genus
- Synchiropus