SYNGNATHID.E. 



LOPHOBRANCHII. 



SYNGNATHIDjE. 



THE DEEP-NOSED PIPE-FISH. 



Syngnathus Typhle, Linn«us. 



Acus Aristotelis, Typhle Antiquorum, Willughby, p. 158, I. 25, fig. 1. 



Syngnathus Typhle, Shorter Pipe-fish, Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 56. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 175, sp. 35. 



,, „ Lesser Pipe-fish, Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 485, 



sp. 173. 



The Deep-nosed Pipe-fish is immediately distinguish- 

 ed from the preceding species by the more compressed form 

 of the jaws, which are also so deep that the upper and lower 

 edges are nearly parallel with the lines of the upper and 

 under surface of the head. From the two large-sized Pipe- 

 fish of the next division this species is easily known by the 

 presence of pectoral, anal, and caudal fins. The figures in 

 the works of Willughby and Mr. Donovan are good repre- 

 sentations ; but I believe the figure in Bloch, part iii. plate 

 91, f. 1, which has usually been considered and referred to as 

 Syngnathus typhle, to be only a representation of the young 

 of *S'. acus. 



S. typhle has also been well figured by M. Laroche, in 

 the Ann. de Mus. t. xiii. under the name of S. Rondeletii. 



