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SYNGNATHID.E. 



LOPHOBRANCH11. 



SYNGNATHIDJ: 



THE SHORT-NOSED HIPPOCAMPUS. 



Hippocampus brevirostris, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 363. 

 ,, Rondeletii, WILLUGHBY, p. 157, I. 25, fig. 3. 



,, brevirostris, Sea-horse, JENYNS, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 489, sp. 177. 



HIPPOCAMPUS. Generic Characters. The jaws united and tubular, like 

 those of the Syngnathi ; the mouth placed at the end; the body compressed, 

 short, and deep ; the whole length of the body and tail divided by longitudinal 

 and transverse ridges, with tubercular points at the angles of intersection ; both 

 sexes have pectoral and dorsal fins ; the females only have an anal fin ; neither 

 sex has ventral or caudal fins. 



PENNANT, in the edition of his British Zoology, the 

 three first volumes of which were published in 1776 and the 

 fourth in 1777, states that he had been informed the Syng- 

 nathus Hippocampus of Linnjeus, or what the English im- 

 properly call the Sea-horse, had been found on the southern 

 shores of this kingdom. John Walcott, Esq. whose MS. 

 History of British Fishes was written in the years 1784 and 

 1785, says, in reference to a drawing of a female specimen 



