p PISCES MASSILIENSES. 



19. SYNGNATHUS hippocampus^ 



D. 20. P. 16, V. o. A, 4, C. o. 



Syngnathus pinna cmdx qua^ 

 flrangulx nuUa, corpore feptem angulato 

 tuberculato, cirroib» 



Maililienfibiis - — - 



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Descr. Corpus c^t^plm8.um, e flavo viri- 



defcens, pun6lis aibis afperrum. Caput fur- 

 fum mobile, antice dcflnens in rojlrmn tubulo- 

 fum Ixve, apice operculari maxillae inferioris 

 loco inftruclum ; infra oblique cingitur fpinis 6. 

 Tuherculus ante roftrum inrer oculos unicus, 

 fupra oculis tuberculi duo, cirris inflrucli, po- 

 ne quos 5. alii, in frontc transverfim pofiti, 

 itidem cirris terminati; dein 4. verticis in qua- 

 drangulum dispofiti, cirrofi. Nucha breviter 

 carinata. Dorfum fupra tuberculis cirrofis utrin- 

 que quafi muricatum, mecJio deprenijm. la 

 corpore antico tuberculorum feries 6. longitu- 

 dinaliter difpofitcE. Tubercali lineis elevatis 

 transverfis corpus cingentibus inter fe cohce.: 

 rent. Abdomen ventricofiim , carina quin- 

 queloba nigra prominens. Haec abdominis ca- 

 rina & tuberculorum fcries fex, jam antea de- 

 fcrJpti, corpus reddunt antice feptem-angulare; 

 Pone pinnam dorfilem fuperne finu attcnuatui: 

 corpus, hic quadrangulare, muricatum tuberT 

 i r .... culo- 



