FISHES. 577 



higher than in the last ; a small keel on the back of the 

 head; lateral plates from the gill cover to the anus 16 ; 

 head shorter than the dorsal fin ; greatest length 5 to 

 6 in. D. 34; P. 10; A. 4. 



Is not rare off the Gothenburg coast, appears not to be 

 known in Britain, unless it is the same as is considered 

 the young of 8. acus, which breeds when but 5 in. long. 

 Very few females of this little species have been taken. 





 Nose much compressed and high. 



158. S. TYPHLE, L. Bred Nabbad Kantnal. The Deep- 

 nosed Pipe Fish. F. D. 



Snout as broad vertically as the head ; forehead flat; 

 lateral plates 18 4-37; head much longer than the 

 dorsal ; tail fin angular ; usual length 9 in. 

 Is the commonest of all, both in the North Sea, Cattegat, 

 and Baltic. Goes into the deeps in May or June. 



Gen. ScypTiius, Riss. 



No pectorals or anal fin ; tail rudimentary or none ; male 

 bears the eggs in open cells under the abdomen. In the 

 last genus the eggs are carried in a pouch similar to the 

 marsupial animals. Form and body covering as in the last. 



Tail fin rudimentary. 



159. SCYPHIUS ^EQUOEEUS, L. Stora Hafsnal. The ^quo- 

 real Pipe Fish. D. 



The tail consists of some short strong rays, grown 

 together, resembling that of the slow worm; body 

 eight- corner ed ; nose round, straight from the tip to 

 the middle of the eye, longer than from thence to the 

 edge of the opercle ; lateral plates to the anus, which 

 lies under the hinder fourth division of the dorsal, 31; 

 dorsal, one and a half times as long as the head ; male 

 22 in. long; female 18 in. 



Is common both on the south-western coast of Sweden 

 and Norway. 



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