188 JEQUOREAL PIPE FISH. Class IV. 



languages to express these fishes; the French 

 call one species Orueul, from a sort of snake 

 not unlike the blindworm ; the Germans call it 

 Meherschlange ; and the Cornish, the sea adder. 



4. JEquo- Syngnathus aequoreus. S. pore angulato. Gm. Lin. 



real. pinna caudas radiata, pec- 1456*. 



toralibus anique nullis, cor- Montagu. Mem. Wern. Soc. 



85. tab.A.f. 1. 



[THIS species, which had hitherto remained 

 among the uncertainties of this ill-ascertained 

 genus, was discovered by the indefatigable Mr. 

 Montagu, near Salcomb in Devonshire, and is 

 described by him with precision, in the first 

 volume of the Memoirs of the Wernerian So- 

 ciety. 

 Descrip- Its length was twenty-one inches ; the snout 

 similar to that of the Shorter Pipe-Fish ; the 

 body compressed, rather angular, with an acute 

 dorsal and abdominal ridge, which, with three 

 slight angles on each side, give it an octangular 

 appearance ; it is of equal size from the gills to 

 the vent ; from thence to the extremity of the 

 tail it is almost round and extremely taper. The 

 dorsal fin, which commences considerably before 

 the vent,, and terminates rather behind it, con- 

 sists of forty rays j the end of the tail is ex- 

 tremely small, compressed into a spurious fin, 



TION. 



