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rudimentarios oslendens, apertura branchialis niinima, su- 

 pera, niagnam partera ciausa ; intestinalis canalis aequali lati- 

 ludine recte decurrens; vesica aerea raaxima, argenteo- 

 nitens , anticam versus partem glanduloso apparatu vel 

 rausculari turaido cincta, e qua oritur ductus pneumati- 

 cus raox iterum divisus , ita ut in Syngnatho plures ejus 

 canales fortasse vasculosi tractum inlestinalem et hepar, 

 oesophago adpositum, adeant, ibideraque ad utrumque 

 latus intestini in tenue corpus excurrant glandulosum, 

 luteum, Insectorum adiposo coasimile, quod pancreatis 

 vel henis similliraum, utrinque ad extremara fere iutestini 

 parlera pertingit, ubi aliis ramis vasculosis terrainatur; 

 vertebrali parli inferiori renes adpressi; foemiuae hucus- 

 que solae distinctius observatae. 



4, Nematosoma *), 772., corpus elongatura , tenuissi- 

 inura, subfiliforme, in tenuiorem sensim caudam excur- 

 rens, teres, vel compressura, rostratum, rostro bre- 

 viore, teretiusculo, cauda fihformis, non prolifera, pinna 

 dorsah unica, rehquis nullis; praegnantes foeminae 

 ovula pro ahquo terapore sub abdomiae adglutinant. 



-j- 1. W. ophidium, m. , Syngnathus L., Bl. t. cji. fig. 3., teres, 

 piuiia dorsi alta , 34-radiata. Hab. iu mari mediterraneo, 

 nigro, prope Odessam; ibidem sequeutes obviae \arie- 

 tates, fortasse species distluctae : corpore compresso, 

 margine supero et infero acutiusculo, nigro, [an N. 

 [Sj/ngn.) fasciatnrn, Riss.); altera abdorniiie complauato, 

 latiusculo, corpore iude subtriquetro ; luijus abdomen 

 forlasse collapsuni est ob ovula , nuperrime edita, eique 

 pridem adglutinata; maxima speciraina nostra adG^poll. 

 longa, capite 4§ lin. "vix excedeute. 



5. SyngnaTHUS, X., j^oss. wrAci pbi6a, pol. iglica^ 

 germ. JSadelfisch., corpus elongatura, tenue, 6 — y-angu- 

 lare, abdomen semper crassius cauda, plurimum tetra- 

 gona, prohfera; rostrum passira longissiraura, corapres- 

 sum; pinnae dorsi saltem caudahs addita, pluriraura 

 quoque anahs et pectorahs radiata; foeminae viviparae. 



*) Vfjfia, filum, acu^a, corpus. 



