452 SMALLER PIPEFISH. 



brown colour, varied throughout its whole length 

 with broad alternate zones of a deeper or olive- 

 brown, with a few smaller variegations intermixed : 

 the shields or laminas with which the joints of the 

 body are covered, appear, if narrowly inspected, to 

 be finely radiated from the centre by numerous 

 lines or streaks : the dorsal fin is placed rather 

 nearer the head than the tail, and is thin, tender, 

 shallow, and of no great extent : the pectoral fins 

 small, and sHghtly rounded, and the tail of similar 

 shape and size. In spring, as in others of this 

 genus, the ova are found lying in a longitudinal 

 channel or division at the lower part of the abdo- 

 men, and are large in proportion to the size of the 

 animal : from these are hatched the young, com- 

 pletely formed. Native of the European seas. 



SMALLER PIPEFISH. 



^Syngnathus Typhle. S. kexagonus^ cauda pinnata. 

 Hexagonal Pipefish, with pinnated tail. 



Syngnathus Typhle. S. pinnis caudce ani pectoralibusque 



radiatls, corpore sexangulato. Lin, Syst. Nat, 

 Syngnathus corpore hexagono anoque pinnato. Block, t. gi. 



This is by some considered as a variety of the 

 preceding fish, from which it chiefly diflers in being 

 of smaller size, seldom measuring more than a foot 

 or fifteen inches, and in having the body rather 

 hexagonal than heptagonal. It is chiefly found in 

 the Northern seas. 



