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PLATE LVIIL 
SYNGNATHUS PELAGICUS. 
PELAGIC PIPE-FISH. 
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***** PISCES BRANCHIOSTEGI. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head small. Snout sub -cylindrical, long, turned up at the apex. 
Llouth terminal, without teeth or tongue, and furnished with a lid. 
Lower jaw moveable. Gill-covers large, striated, and closed or shut 
H** Spiracle on. the nape tubular, the opening small. Body articu* 
Lted with many sided scales. No ventral fins. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
SYNONYMS. 
Sectoral and caudal fin radiated: anal fin none; body linear and 
* cv en sided. 
^Tngnathus Pelagicus pinnis pectorahbus caudasque radiatis, 
ani nulla, corpore linearis septemangulato. 
^Nqnathus Pelagicus : pinnis pectorahbus caudseque radiatis 
ani nulla, corpore septemangulato. Linn- Gmel. 
Syst. Nat. 14S5. sp. 3. 
Syngnathus Pelagicus. Osbeck it. 105. 
Le Syngnathe Tuyau. Lose. Diet. Nat. T. 21 . p. 315. 
v ol. hi. 
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