Dragonet (Callionymus), a genus of spiny-rayed bony fishes near the Gobies (q.v.), remarkable for having the gill-openings reduced to a small hole on each side of the nape, and the ventral fins placed under the throat, separate, and larger than the pectorals. The species are numerous, widely distributed in the temperate seas of the Old World, and generally finely coloured. The Gemmeous Dragonet (C. lyra) of the British coasts—called Gowdie (gowd, 'gold') in Scotland—is a fish about 10 or 12 inches long, of a prevailing yellow colour varied with spots of brown. At the reproductive season the male becomes very gorgeously adorned with blue and violet spots and stripes. This fish is also called Skulpin or Sculpin—a name given in America to a marine bull-head or cottus.