, 4 o SHORTER PIPE. Class IV. 



&. Shorter. L' Orueul marin. Belon, 4.4.6. heptagono, cauda pinnata. 



Acus fecunda fpecies, five, Arted. fynon. 2. 



acus Ariflotelis. Rondel. 229. Syngnathus acus. S. pinnis 



Typhle. Gefner fife. 1025. caudae ani pectoralibufque 



Trummeter, Meherfchlange. radiatis, corpore feptem- 



Schone<velde, II. angulato. Lin.fyjl. 416. 



Acus Ariftotelis feu fecunda. Kantnahl. i^/z. Suec.No. 376. 



JF/7. /*?£. 158. Rait Jyn. Syngnathus cauda pinnata, 



fife. 47. Grono<v. Zoofh. No. 172. 



Syngnathus corpore medio Sea-adder. B 'or lafeComw. 267. 



THIS is (hotter and thicker than the former, 

 yet I have ieen one of the length of fixteen 

 inches. The middle of the body in fome is hexan- 

 gular, in others heptangular. Linnaus conftitutes 

 two fpecies of them, his Syngnathus Typble, and 

 his Syngnathus Acus ; but we join with Doctor 

 Gronovius, in thinking them only varieties of the 

 fame fifli. 



The mouth is formed like that of the former : 

 the irides are yellow : clofe behind the head are the 

 pectoral fins, which are fmall and fhort. 



On the lower part of the back is one narrow 

 fin ; beyond the vent the tail commences, which is 

 long and quadrangular. 



At the extremity is a fin round and radiated. 



The body is covered with a ftrong cruft, ele- 

 gantly divided into fmall compartments. 



The belly is white ; the other parts brown. 



Befides thefe fpecies of hard-fkinned Pipe fifli, 



we 



