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VII. Defcription of the Stylephorus chordatus, anew Sie, by George Show, 
AM. D. F. R. S. Fellow of the Linnean Society. 
Read December 2, 1788, 
AVING lately had an opportunity of examining a very un- - 
common and curious fifh, which, fo far as I am able to judge, 
conítitutes a new genus, I was induced to compofe a fhort defcrip- 
tion of it; which, together with a figure drawn of the natural 
fize, will I hope be fufficient to give a clear idea of fo fingular an 
animal. The generic characters may I think be defcribed thus: 
Ocur: pedunculati (feu cylindro craffo brevi impofiti). 
RosTRuM productum, furfum fpectans, verfus caput membrana 
interjecta retractile. 
Os terminale, edentulum ? 
BRANCHIZ trium parium fub jugulo fitz. 
PrNNJE pectorales parvas. dorfalis longitudine dorfi ; 
Caupazis brevis, radiato-fpinofa. 
Corpus longiffimum, compreffum. 
The head of this extraordinaly animal bears fome diftant refem- 
blance to that of the genus Syngnathus, and its true ftruéture 
cannot fo eafily be defcribed in words as conceived by the figure. 
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