106 LONGER PIPE FISH.  Clafs1V. 
Behind the head begins the dorfal fin, which ex- 
tends quite to the end of the tail: the ventral fin 
begins at the anus, and unites with the other at the 
tail. 
Beneath the throat is a round depreffion of a 
whitifh color, like the impreffion of a feal, furrounded 
by twelve fmall pale yellow tubera, by which it is _ 
probable it adheres to the ftones like the other 
{pecies. 
Genus XI. Nofe long and tubular. 
No orifice to the gills : 
The breathing aperture on the 
hind part of the head. 
No ventral fins. 
The body covered with a 
ftrong cruft. Pree Fist. 
lo The LONGER “PIPE Sion 
Acus Ariffotelis cauda ferpenti- Syngnathus barbarus. S. pinnis 
na. Sid, Scot. 24. tab. 19. caude anique nullis, cor- 
Typhlealtera. Ge/ner pife. 1025. pore fexangulato? Lin. /y/ft. 
Syngnathus corpore quadran- = 417. 
gulo, pinna eaud@ carens ? 
-Arted. Spec. 3. 
HIS fpecies, defcribed by Sir Robert Sibbald, 
was two feet in length; that we examined 
only fixteen inches. | 
The nofe was an inchlong, comprefied fideways, 
and the end of the lower mandible turned up: the 
aperture of the mouth was very {mall. 
The 
