Sytig/ial/iusQ) uncinatus Duncker, Mitt. a. d. naturh. Mus. Hamburg, XXXII. 

 1915, p. 86. 



D. 28 ; P. 1 5 ; Rings 15+42; sub- 

 dorsal rings 1+7. 



Slender. Trunk heptagonal, the 

 ventral keels strongly prominent; 

 tail tetragonal. Shields transversely 

 striated, their edges strongly pro- 

 minent, finely but very sharply 

 serrated, terminating in a hindward 

 curved spine. Intermedia! shields 

 (scutella) wanting. Superior cristae 

 of trunk terminating near end of 

 dorsal; superior cristae of tail with 

 their anterior part deflected and con- 

 tinued to last ring of trunk; where 

 they are situated above the end of 

 the median cristae of trunk. Inferior 

 cristae of trunk and tail continuous. 

 Head 8 ! / 2 times in length, twice in 

 that of trunk. Snout equal to re- 

 maining part of head, thrice longer 

 than diameter of eye; it is cylin- 

 drical but somewhat compressed ; 

 its superior profile obliquely conti- 

 nued in that of the posterior part 

 of the head. A median denticulated 

 keel begins on the posterior half 

 of the snout and is continued with 

 two intervals on the occiput and 

 nape; serrated supraorbital edges 

 commence before the nostrils and 

 terminate on occiput. Similar edges 

 laterally on snout. Operculum with 

 a complete serrated longitudinal keel 

 from which radiate pennatiform 

 edges. Tail more than 2 ! / 2 times as 

 long as trunk. Subdorsal rings in- 

 flated; dorsal fin therefore somewhat elevated above level of 

 dorsal profile. Caudal rounded, much shorter than postorbital 

 part of head. Yellowish, ventral part of trunk brown as also 



Fig. 35- 



Syngnathiif iincinatus M. Web. 

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