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PLATE LVI. 
SYNGNATHUS TYPHLE. 
***** PISCES BRANCHIOSTEGI. 
SHORTER PIPE-FISH. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head small. Snout sub-cylindrical, long, turned up at the apex. 
Mouth terminal, without teeth or tongue, and furnished with a lid. 
Lower jaw moveable. Gill-covers large, striated, and closed or shut 
ttp. Spiracle on the nape tubular, the opening small. Body articu- 
lated with many sided scales. No ventral fins. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Caudal and pectoral fins radiated : anal fin small ; body 'hexagonal ; 
abdomen somewhat carinated ; snout broad and compressed. 
Syngnathus Typhle : pinnis caudm pectoralibusque radiatis ani 
minima, corpore sexangulato, abdomine sub- 
carinato, rostro lato compresso. 
SynOnathus Typhle : pinnis cauda?. ani, pectoralibusque radiatis, 
corpore sexangulato. Linn • Fn. Suec. 377.-— 
Gmel . Sj/st. Nat. t. 1. p. 3. 1454. sp. 1, 
