Number ioo April 9. 1921 



OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE MUSEUM OF 

 ZOOLOGY 



UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 



AnxM Arbor, Michigan Published by the University 



NOTES ON THE PIPE-FISHES OF CALIFORNIA 



By Carl L. Hubbs 



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S\ngnofhiis Icf^forhynchiis Girard 



Siphostoma barbarae Swain, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mits., 7, 1884, 

 p. 22S; Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Xat. Miis., 47, pt. 

 I, 1896, p. 765. 



Syngnathus barbarae Hubbs, Univ. Cat. Piibl. Zoo/., 16, 

 1916, p. 159. 



After comparing the published descriptions of S. barbarae 

 with specimens of S. leptorhynchus from near Santa Barbara, 

 CaHfornia, the type-locahty of barbarae, the writer has come 

 to the conclusion that the type and only known specimen of 

 barbarae is a leptorliynchns with an injured tail. The follow- 

 ing table indicates that the proportional measurements of 

 barbarae are not clearly distinctive. Those of the first column 

 were taken by Dr. C. H. Gilbert from the type of S. barbarae. 



