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a The LT Toes Pipe ELS 
Acui Arifforelis congener pifci- _ralibus caudaqueccarens. 4r- 
culus, pueris cornubienfibus. ted. fynon. 2. 
Sea Adder, Acus Lumbrici- Syngnathus ophidion. Lin. /j/te 
formis, aut Serpentinus. Wil, 417. 
Lcth. 160. Raii fyn. pife. Hafsnahl, Tangfnipa. Faun. 
Syngnathus teres, pinnispecto- —_fuec. No. 3755 
HE little pipe fith feldom exceeds five inches 
in length, is very flender, and tapers off to a 
point. It wants both the pectoral and tail fins; is 
covered with a {mooth fkin, not with a cruft as the 
two former kinds are. 
- The nofe is fhort and turns a hitle up; the eyes 
prominent. 
On the back is one narrow fin. 
This fpecies is not viviparous : on the belly of the 
female is a long hollow, to which adhere the eggs, 
difpofed in two or three rows, are large, and not 
numerous. 
Doétor Gronovius makes this fynonymous with the 
fifh defcribed by Sir Robert Sibbald, poffibly from 
not having an opportunity of comparing them. 
To fhew their differerices the more ftrongly, we 
have caufed both fpecies to be engraved in the 
fame plate, and alfo the two varieties of our fe- 
cond fpecies. 
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