108 SHORTER PIPE FISH. Cla& IV. 
Il. The SHORTER PIPE FISH. 
_ L’Orueul marin. Belon. 446. tagono, cauda pinnata. Are 
Acus fecunda fpecies, five, ted. fynon. 2. 
acus Ariffotelis. Rondel. 229. Syngnathus acus. S. pinnis 
Typhle. Ge/ner pifc. 1025. caude ani pectoralibufque 
Trummeter, Meherfchlange. radiatis, corpore aig an- 
Schonevelde, 11. gulato. Lin. fj. 4 
Acus 4rifotelis feu fecunda. Kantnahl. Faun. fe = 376. 
Wil. Icth. 158. Raii fyn. pifee Syngnathus cauda _ pinnata. 
47. Gronov. Zooph. No. 1726 
Syngnathus corporemediohep- Sea-adder. Borla/e Cornw. 267. 
HIS is fhorter and thicker than the former, 
not exceeding twelve inches in length. The 
middle of the body in fome is hexangular, in others 
heptaneular. Linneus conftitutes two fpecies of 
them, his Syugnathus Typhle, and his Syngnathus Acus ; 
- but we join with Doctor Gronovius, in thinking them 
only varieties of the fame fith. 
The mouth is formed like that of the former : 
the irides are yellow: clofe behind the head are the 
pectoral fins, which are {mall 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 ftrong cruft, elegantly 
divided into fmall compartments. 
The belly is white ; the other parts brown. 
Belides thefe fpecies of hard-fkinned Pipe fith, 
we have been informed, that the Sywgnathus Hippo- 
campus of Linneus, or what the Engli/b improperly 
call the fea horfe, has been found on the fouthern 
thores of this kingdom. ll. The 
