15. HIPPOCAMPUS. 205 



1 1 . Hippocampus camelopardalis. 



Hippocampus camolopardalis, Bianconi, Nov. Comm. Itist. Se. Borwn. 



1855, p. 145, pi. 1. fig. 3; Peters, Motiatsher. Ak. Wvis. Berlin, 



18G8, p.27G. 

 siibcoronatus, G'dnth. in Fish. Zanz. p. ] 39, pi. 20. fig. 4. 



Dorsal fin with cightocn ray.s. Tubercles obtuse and blunt. 

 The supraorbital spine is compressed at the ba.se, simple, pointed, 

 pointing outwards. -Coronet elevated, subpentagonal at the top. 

 Snout short, equal in length to the gill-cover. Eleven body-rings. 

 Three small blackish spots immediately below the dorsal profile on 

 the first, fourth, and seventh body-rings. 



Zanzibar; Mozambique. 



a. Typo of H. suhcoronatus. From Lieut.-Col. Playfair's CoUection. 



12. Hippocampus coronatus. 

 Schleq. Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 274, pi. 120. fig. 8 ; Kaup, Lophobr. 

 p. 16. 



Ten body-rings only. The coronet is exceedingly high, as long 

 as the snout. Process on each side of the base of the dorsal fin 

 much developed, directed outwards and upwards. (SchJeg.) 



Japaii. 



13. Hippocampus laevicaudatus. 

 Kaup, Lophobr. p. 16, tab. 2. fig. 2. 



Dorsal as long as the head, and standing on five rings. Body- 

 rings eleven. Eyes nearly in the middle, between the end of the 

 snout and gill-opening. Tail without knobs. Gill-cover silvery 

 (Kaup.) 



North America. The single typical specimen is in the Vienna 

 Collection. 



14. Hippocampus bicuspis. 



Kaup, Lophobr. p. 13, tab. 3. fig. 1. 



The spine that precedes the coronet (occipital) and the one over 

 the nostril forked. Eleven body-rings. Traces of two dark cross 

 bands on the snout. (Kaup.) 



Known from a single very young specimen from Gorea in the 

 Paris Museum. 



15. Hippocampus lichtensteinii. 



Kaup, Lophobr. p. 8. 



The coronet is a roundish elevated knob, with short spines in 

 front and behind ; head, gill-covers, and underpiecc (?) of the snout 

 warty, and there are some warts on the side of the body. The 

 length of the snout ecju-'^ds the distance from the anterior margin of 

 the orbit to the end of the operculum. Dorsal fin short, placed on 

 the two last body-rings. {Kaup.) 



? Red Sea. The ty^jical example is in the Berlin Museum. 



