PEGASUS. PEGASUS. 



Generic Character, 



nostrum elongatum. Os 



sub rosjtro, 

 Pinnte pectorales am pise : 



ventrales uniradiatse. 

 Corpus depressum, cata- 



phractum, abdomine os- 



seis incisuris articulatum. 



Snout elongated : mouth be- 

 neath. 



Pectoral fins large : ventral 

 single-rayed. 



Body depressed, mailed, 

 with the abdomen divided 

 into bony segments. 



DRAGON PEGASUS. 



Pegasus Draco. P. thorace subtetragono, humeris prominentibus^ 

 abdomine brevi. 



Pegasus with subteti-agonal thorax, prominent shoulders, and 



short abdomen. 

 Pegasus Draconis. P. rostra conico. Lin. S^sf. Nat. 

 Cataphractus corpore tetragono, brevi, scabro. Gronov, zooph, 

 Pegasus corpora lato tetragonoque. Bloc/e. t, 20Q, 



Th E genus Pegasus is in some degree allied to 

 that of Syngnathus. The principal species, the 

 Pegasus Draco, is a small fish of about the length 

 of three or four inches, and is remarkable for the 

 size of its pectoral fins, which are supposed to 

 enable it, like the Exocoeti and some other fishes, 

 to support itself for some moments in air, while it 

 springs occasionally over the surface of the water : 

 the thorax or superior part of the body^ is of a 



