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Habitat — ^onth Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States; Beau- 

 fort, X. C: San Marco Island, Fla.; Pensacola, Fla. 



9. Siphostoma affine (Gunther) J. & G. 



Synrjnathus affinis Giiuther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Miis. viii, 163. 1870 (Louis- 



iaua.) 

 Si2)hotwstoma sp. Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. 22, 1680 (Saint John's River, 



Fla.). 

 Sq)hostoma affinis J. & G. Synopsis Fishes North America. 383, 1882 (Saint 



John's River, Fla.); J. & G. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882 (Pensacola, Fla.). 



Trunk robust, very deep; width of adult females 2 in depth. Snout 

 short, 2 to 21 in head; median ridge well delined above and below; a 

 less conspicuous ridge above on each side of median line, from end of 

 snout to nostrils, thence running over iuterorbital and temples. Occiput, 

 nuchal plates, and opercle keeled. Belly, in females, sharply carinated. 

 Fins well developed. Height of dorsal, 3i in its length ; base of dorsal 

 .slightly longer than head, covering 34-4i-5 rings. Caudal, 2i in base 

 of dorsal. 



Color in life, "deep olive green, varying to brown or l>lackish, or 

 slightly reddi.sh, according to surroundings; females with a black keel 

 on the belly, which is obsolete in the male. Dark color of back form- 

 ing about 15 dark cross-bars, very faint and much wider than the inter- 

 spaces. Sides of head mottled, especially on lower half of opercles. 

 Snout dark above, abruptly paler below. Dorsal high, having the dark 

 color of the body with dark oblique shades, the paler color appear- 

 ing like faint spots; vertical striiie on body plates, shining .silvery, very 

 distinct and bright in life. Caudal and anal colored like the dorsal, the 

 latter conspicuous." {Jordan.) 



Described from specimens taken at Pensacola, Fla. 



Eahitat.—iioiith. Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States; Saint 

 John'.s Kiver, Fla. ; Pensacola, Fla.; Louisiana. 



10. Siphostoma louisianae (Giiuther) J. & G. 



Syngnathm loulsiana' Glinther, Cat. Fish, viii, 160, 1870 (New Orleans). 

 SipJwiwstoma loitisiance Jordan, Vroc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 22 (Beaufort, N. C). 

 Sijihostoyna louisiana J. <t G. Synopsis Fishes North America, 383, 1882 (Beau- 

 fort, N. C). 

 Syngnathus fuscHs Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Poiss. ii, 574 (Savannah). 



