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BARBARIC PIPEFISH. 



Syngnathus Barbarus. S, pinnis caudce anique millis, corpore 



sexangulato. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Pipefish with hexagonal body, without caudal or anal fins. 



Native of the European seas. 



SEA-HORSE PIPEFISH. 



Syngnathus Hippocampus. S. capite crasso, corpore siibhex- 



agono tuherculato, cauda quadrangula apt era. 

 Pipefish with thick head, subhexagonal tuberculated body, 



and quadrangular finless tail. 

 Syngnathus Hippocampus. S. pinna caudce quadrangulce nulla, 



corpore septemangulato tuherculato, Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Syngnathus corpore tuberculoso. Block, t. 109. 

 Hippocampus. Rond. Gesn. Aldr, Will. SfC, 



A FISH of a highly singular appearance : general 

 length from six to ten inches : body much com- 

 pressed; colour greenish brown, varied with darker 

 and lighter specks : head large, thickish, and beset 

 on the upper part, as well as along some of the first 

 joints of the body, with several small, weak, length- 

 ened spines or cirrhi, which are sometimes slightly 

 ramified: snout slender: neck contracting suddenly 

 beyond the head : body rather short, and contract- 

 ing suddenly towards the tail, which is long, qua- 

 drangular, and terminates in a naked or finless tip. 

 In its dry or contracted state this animal exhibits 

 the fancied resemblance from which it takes its 

 name, but in the living fish this appearance is 



