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typically changes markedly with age; juvenile color pattern consisting 

 chiefly of light-colored blotches around the base of the spines usually 

 more or less coalescent; in large specimens the blotched color partly 

 or wholly replaced by a striped pattern (see below regarding change 



Figure GO.— Hippocampus hudsonius hudsonius, drawn from a specimen 17 mm long from Beaufort, N. C. 

 Length of specimen as drawn, 12 mm excluding spines. The long spines are characteristic of specimens 

 of that size. 



and variability of color with size and individual fish); tail typically 

 peppered with small light-colored dots, whitish or bluish in preserva- 

 tive, these dots usually present also on head, back of trunk, and base 

 of dorsal, and much more sparsely on side of trunk; similar dots often 



