''Protogrammus'' is a

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dragonet Dragonets are small Percomorpha, percomorph marine fish of the diverse family Callionymidae (from the Greek language, Greek ''kallis'', "beautiful" and ', "name") found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific. They are Benthos, ...

s found in the

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and

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...

Species

There are currently 3 recognized species in this genus: * '' Protogrammus alboranensis'' R. Fricke, Ordines, Farias & García-Ruiz, 2016 Farias, C., Ordines, F., García-Ruiz, C. & Fricke, R. (2016): ''Protogrammus alboranensis'' n. sp. (Teleostei: Callionymidae), a new species of dragonet from the Alboran Sea, western Mediterranean Sea. ''Scientia Marina, 80 (1): 51-56.'' * '' Protogrammus antipodus'' R. Fricke, 2006 * '' Protogrammus sousai'' (

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, 1972) (Meteor dragonet)

References

Callionymidae Marine fish genera {{Callionymidae-stub