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FIFTEEN SPINED S. BACK. Class IV. 



3. Fifteen Aculeatus, sive Pungitius ma- Gasterosteus aculeis in dorso 



SPINED. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



rinus longus, Stein-bicker, 

 Ersskruper. Schonevelde, 10. 

 tab. iv. Sib. Scot. iii. 24. 

 tab. IQ. 

 Aculeatus marinus major. Wil. 

 Ichth. 340. App. 23. Rail 

 syn. pise. 145. 



quindecim. Arted. synon. 8 1 . 

 Gasterosteus Spinachia. Lin. 



Syst. 402. Gm. Lin. 1327. 



Gronov. Zooph. No. 407. 



Faun. Suec. No. 338. 

 La grande Epinoche. Block 



ichth. ii. 78. tab. 53./. I. 



A HIS species inhabits the sea, and is never 

 found in fresh water. 



Its length is above six inches ; the nose is 

 long and slender ; the mouth tubular ; the teeth 

 small. The fore part of the body is covered on 

 each side with a row of bony plates, forming a 

 ridge ; the body afterwards grows very slender, 

 and is quadrangular. Between the head and 

 the dorsal fin are fifteen small spines ; the dor- 

 sal fin is placed opposite the anal fin ; the ven- 

 tral fins are wanting; the tail is even at the 

 end. The color of the upper part is a deep 

 brown ; the belly white. 



