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SYNGNATHID^, 



LOPHOBRANCHIL 



SYNGNAriUDM. 



THE SHORT-NOSED HIPPOCAMPUS. 



Hippocampus brevirostris, Cuvier, Regne An. t. ii. p. 363. 

 „ Rondeletii, Willughby, p. 157, I. 25, fig. 3. 



,, brevirostris, Sea-horse, Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 489, sp. 177. 



Generic Characters. — The jaws united and tubular, like those of the Syng- 

 nathi ; the mouth placed at the end ; the body compressed, short, and deep ; 

 the whole length of the body and tail divided by longitudinal and transverse 

 ridges, with tubercular points at the angles of intersection ; both sexes have 

 pectoral and dorsal fins ; the females only have an anal fin ; neither sex has 

 ventral or caudal fins. 



Pennant, in the edition of his British Zoology, the 

 three first volumes of which were published in 1776 and the 

 fourth in 1777, states that he had been informed the Syng- 

 nathus Hippocampus of Linnaeus, or what the English im- 

 properly call the Sea-horse, had been found on the south- 

 ern shores of this kingdom." John Walcott, Esq. whose 

 MS. History of British Fishes was written in the years 1784 

 and 1785, says, in reference to a drawing of a female speci- 

 men of what I believe to be the Hippocampus brevirostris of 



