There are many types of Dragons but there are nine major types of dragons such as the Horned dragon (produces rain and is totally deaf), there's the Celestial dragon (lives in the sky and protects the Gods from falling out of the clouds), The Coiling dragon (lives in the water), The Yellow dragon (once emerged from water and showed Fu Shi the elements of writing), The Underground Dragon (guards precious metals and treasure lost in the ground and all of these dragons have a large pearl that what ever it touches multiplies). and the most known dragon "The Dragon King" which consist of 4 dragons that rule 1 of 4 parts of the sea (North,East,South and West). Dragons also have the appearance of many different animals and there's a picture below showing what parts of other animals on the dragon and if you look at just about every Chinese Dragon it has those appearances.