FISHES OF NEW YORK 347 



Order LOPHOBRANCHII 



Tuftgitts 



Suborder SYXGXATHI 

 Family 



Pipefishes 

 Subfamily 

 Genus SIPHOSTOMA Rafinesque 



Body elongate, very slender, six or seven-angled, not com- 

 pressed, tapering into a very long tail, the dorsal keels of the 

 Trunk not continuous with those of the tail; head slender, taper- 

 ing into a long, tube! ike, subterete snout, which bears the very 

 short, toothless jaws at the end; humeral bones firmly united 

 with the ''breast ring;' 7 body covered with a series of bony, 

 keeled, radiated plates, arranged in linear series; dorsal fin dis- 

 tinct, rather short, inserted before or opposite the vent, which 

 is near the middle of the body; caudal fin present, rather small; 

 anal fin minute, close behind vent; pectorals developed, short 

 and rather broad. Male fishes with an egg pouch along the 

 under side of the tail, formed by two cutaneous folds, and 

 splitting lengthwise to release the young fishes. Species very 

 numerous, inhabiting all warm seas; abounding in bays among 

 the seaweeds, and entering the rivers. The females in most 

 species are deeper than the males, with more robust trunk, with 

 longer snout, and a more distinct ventral keel. 



Subgenus SIPHOSTOMA 

 174 Siphostoma fuscum (Storer) 

 Common Pipefish 



Xynynathus fuscus STOKER, Kept. Fish. Mass. 162, 1839, Xahant. 

 Sjfaynathus pecJcianus STORER, op. cit. 163, pi. I, fig. 2, 1839, Holmes' Hole, 



Marthas Vineyard; Syn. Fish. N. A. 238, 1846; Hist. Fish. Mass. 218, 



pi. XXXIII, fig, 3, 1867. 



Si/ngnathus fasciatus DE KAY, X. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 319, pi. 54, fig. 174, 1842. 

 Sytiffnatlius riridescens DE KAY, op. cit. 321, pi. 54, fig. 176, 1842, Hudson 



River, at Sing Sing. 

 Siphostoma fuscum and peckianum. GOODE & BEAN, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 



4, 1879. 

 Siphostoma fuscum JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 383, 1883; 



BEAN, Bull. U. S. F. C. VII. 134, 1888; 19th Kept. Commrs. Fish. N. Y. 



244, 1890; 52d Ann. Kept. X. Y. State Mus. 101, 1900; JORDAN & EVER- 

 MANX. Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 770, 1896. 



