76 CLASS XIV. 



C. IT. ECKSTROEM. Berlin, 1835, 8vo, s. 122, 132, 133. In Soleno- 

 stomus the ventral fins form a sac, which serves a similar purpose. 



Family IX. Lopholranchii. (Characters of the order those also 

 of the single family.) Mouth edentulous. 



Pegasus L. Snout elongate, with mouth below. Body de- 

 pressed. Ventral fins narrow, setaceous or cirriform, behind the 

 ample pectorals. Dorsal fin opposite to anal. 



Sp. Pegasus draconis L., BLOCK Ichth. Tab. 109, figs, i, i, Syst. Ichth. Tab. 

 107 ; a figure of the skeleton is to be found in ROSENTHAL Ichtkyot. Tafeln, 

 Tab. x. figs. 13 17; the sea-dragon. The broad pectoral fins resemble 

 expanded wings ; these small, singularly formed fishes are found in the 

 East-Indian seas. Pegasus natans L., GRONOV. Zoophyl. i. Tab. xi. figs, r, 

 2, with an elongated, thinner body, and a long snout. (The figure in 

 CUVIER R. Ani., ed. ill., Poiss. PL in, fig. 2, does not represent this, but 

 the preceding species.) A third species recorded by LINNAEUS, Pegasus 

 volans, is unknown to me. 



Solenostomus SEBA, LACEP. Snout elongate, compressed, with 

 mouth terminal. Ventral fins placed behind the pectorals, very 

 large, concrete with each other, and connected to the sides of body. 

 Dorsal fins two, posterior opposite to anal. Caudal fin acumi- 

 nate, with middle rays elongate. 



Sp. Solenostomus paradoxus LAC., Fistularia paradoxa PALL., Spicil. Zool., 

 fasc. VIII. pp. 32 35, Tab. IV. fig. 6 ; from Amboyna, &c., attains a size 

 of 2". 



Syngnaihus L. Snout elongate, tubular, with mouth termi- 

 nal. Ventral fins none. Dorsal fin single. 



In some the trunk is higher than the tail, and bent in a curve ; they form 

 the sub-genus of the sea-horses, or 



Hippocampus Cuv. 



Syngnaihus hippocampus L., is a collective name, under which different 

 species are included. Sp. Hippocampus brevirostris Cuv., YARKELL, Brit. 

 Fishes, II. p. 342 ; GUERIN Iconogr., Poiss. PI. 65, fig. 2. These fishes 

 have no caudal fin ; the tail is prehensile or volute, by which they hang 

 upon marine plants ; the females have a small anal fin, which is wanting in 

 the males 1 . 



1 A species from New Holland with leaf-like appendages, Syngnathus foliatus 

 SHAW, is figured and described by LACEPEDE, Ann. du Mas. iv. pp. 203, 204, PI. 58, 

 fig. 3, Syngnathe a bandcrolles. 



