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4&2 ORDER-V. 
LOPHOBRANCHII. 
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Fawunx I 
SYNGNATHIDAE. 
_ Synenatuvs. Lin. 
Generic sans Body elongated, slender, cov- : 
ered with a series of indurated plates arranged. in 
parallel lines; head long; both jaws produced, 
united, tubular ; no ventral fins. 
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S. fuscus. Nobis. The brown Pipe mM 
I am strongly impressed with the belief that the 
fish noticed as the “S. typAle,? by Mitchell, in his 
“Fishes of New York," is not that fish, but the same 
as the species before me, which I conceive to be 8 
previously unnoticed species. I am indebted for 
my specimen to Mr. Jonathan Johnson of Nahant. 
Body elongated, tapering exceedingly to the tail, 
covered with parallel horny plates, of an irregular 
dull brown color above; lighter beneath. Body, in 
front of the anal fin, heptangular, with three ridges 
on each side ; above, in the middle, and below ; and 
another in the middle of the abdomen terminating 
at the anus. Throughout the greater portion of the = 
