!o PISCES MASSILIENSES. 



ip. SYNGNATHUS hippocampus. 



D. .20. P. 16. V. o. A. 4. C. o. 



Syngnathus pinna caucte qua- 

 ciranguke nulla, corpore feptem angulato 

 tuberculato, cirrofo* 



Maflllienfibns 



Descr. Corpus cataphractum, e flavo viri- 

 defcens, punitis albis afperfum. Caput fur- 

 fum mobile, antice definens in rojlrum tubulo- 

 ftim laeve, apice operculari maxilfe inferioris 

 loco inftrucTtum ; infra oblique cingitur fpinis 6. 

 Tuberculus ante roftrum inter oculos unicus, 

 fupra oculis tuberculi duo, cirris inftrucli, po- 

 ne quos 3. alii, in fronte transverfim pofiti, 

 itidem cirris terminati; dein 4. verticis in qua- 

 drangulum dispofiti, cirrofi. Nucha breviter 

 carinata. Dorfum fupra tubercuiis cirrofis utrin? 

 que quafi muricatum, medio deprefium. In 

 corpore antico tuberculorum feries 6\ longitu- 

 dinaliter difpofitse. Tuberculi lineis elevatis 

 transverfis corpus cingentibus inter fe cohce- 

 rent. Abdomen ventricofum, carina quin- 

 queloba nigra prominens. Haec abdominis ca- 

 rina & tuberculorum feries fex, jam antea de- 

 fcripti, corpus reddunt antice feptem-angulare. 

 Pone pinnam dorfalem fuperne finu attenuatur 

 corpus, hic quadrangulare, muricatum tuber- 



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