TELEOSTOMES 



be followed, as in characters of viscera, gills, and endo- 

 skeleton. In its life habits mimicry is strongly evinced; 



Fig. 185 A. The pipe-fish, Syngnathus acus J, L., showing abdominal pouch. 

 X i. (After GiJNTHEK.) Coasts of Europe and Africa. 



the well-known genus Phyllopteryx, whose entire body 

 surface develops pigmented appendages, is with difficulty 

 to be distinguished from a rough-shaped seaweed. (LopJio- 

 brauckii.} 



