184 LONGER PIPE FISH. Class IV. 



GENUS XIV. PIPE FISH. 



Nose long and tubular. 



Orifice, none to the gills. 



Aperture, the breathing, on the hind part of 



the head. 

 Fins ventral none. 

 Body covered with a strong crust. 



1. Longer. -Acus Aristotelis cauda serpen- gulo, pinna caudse carcns? 



tina. Sib. Scot. 24. Tab. Arted. Spec. 3. 



IQ. Syngnathus barbarus. S. pin- 



Typhle altera. Gesner pise. nis caudae anique nullis, 



1025. corpore sexangulato? Lin. 



Syngnathus corpore quadran- syst. 417. Gm. Lin. 1457. 



J-HIS species, described by Sir Robert Sib- 

 bald, was two feet in length ; that we examined 

 Descrip- only sixteen inches. The nose was an inch long, 

 compressed sideways, and the end of the lower 

 mandible turned up : the aperture of the mouth 

 very small ; the irides were red ; behind each 

 eye was a deep brown line ; the body, in the 

 thickest part, was about equal to a swan's quil, 

 hexangular from the end of the dorsal fin ; from 

 thence to the tail quadrangular; the belly was 



TION. 



