t40 S H O R T E R P I P E. Class IV. 



6i. Shorter. L* Orueul marin. 5^/?;?, 446. heptagono, cauda pinnata", 



Acus fecunda fpecies, five, Arted. fyno-d. 2. 



?iCMS Jrijhtelis. Rc?ideL 2zg. Syngnathus acus. S. pinnis 



Typhle. Ge/ner pifc. 1025. caud^ ani pedloralibufque 



Trummeter, Meherfchlange. radiatis, corpore leptem- 



Scbo'ae--j£Ue., II. angalato. Lin.fyji. 416. 



Acus Arijiotelis feu fecunda. KantnahLi^i2««. 6'«:f<:. No. 376. 



Wil. Icth. 158. Rail fyn, Syngnathus cauda pinnata. 



fife. 4-. Grono-j. Zooph. No. 172. 



Syngnathus corpore medio Sea-adder. ^c/'/^Corao/j. 267. 



THIS is fnorter and thicker than the former, 

 vet I have feen one of the leno^th of fixteen 

 inches. The middle of the body in fome is hexan- 

 guiar, in others heptangular. Linnaeus conflitutes 

 two fpecies of them, his Syngnathus "Typhle^ and 

 his Syngnathus Acus\ but we join with Doctor 

 GronovJus, in thinking them only varieties of the 

 fame fifh. 



The mouth is formed like that of the former : 

 the irides are yellow : clofe behind the head are the 

 pedloral fins, which are fmall and fhort. 



On the lower part of the back is one narrow 

 fin -, beyond the vent the tail commences, which is 

 long and quadrangular. 



At the extremity is a fin round and radiated. 



The body is covered with a flrong crufl, ele- 

 gantly divided into fmall compartments. 



The belly is white ; the other parts brown. 



Befides thefe fpecies of hard-fkinned Pipe fifh, 



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