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[Wk place in a separate section or genus, but without assigning to 
it a separate name, species which have a much more lengthened and 
comparatively slender body than those of the proper genus Syngnathus, 
with a true although very small caudal fin, but without pectorals, 
anals, or a pouch to receive the young; which latter circumstance 
we think of sufficient importance of itself to warrant the sepiaration ] 
OCEAN PIPEFISH. 
Syngnathus mquorctis, Linn^us. Cuvieb. 
“ “ Jejiyns; Manual, p. 436. 
” Yabbell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 442. 
This species is more especially an inhabitant of the open 
ocean, where in summer our fishermen report that they see it 
near the surface over a depth of more than fifty fathoms, at 
a distance from land of ten or fifteen leagues; and generally 
its coming near the shore appears to be by accidental wandering 
rather than from design, and on this account it has been 
believed to be more scarce than it really is. The only 
exception to these remarks that I have met with is from Mr. 
Andrews, already quoted, who says, (“Zoologist,” volume for 
I860,) “In Dingle Harbour the .S’, mguoreus may be met with 
very abundantly in the summer months, spawning in the 
months of J une and J uly. This is the largest and most 
beautiful of the species, the girth of the body being oval, of 
a long tapering form to the tail. These fish under favourable 
opportunities of calmness and of tides, may be seen side by 
side, clinging with their tails to the tufts of Zostera maritia, 
ill which position the male is enabled to attach to the abdomen 
the ova by the same influence of viscid secretion alluded to 
in the marsupial species:” or, as I shall prefer to express it, 
by the combined action of both parents the ova are transferred 
from the female to the external surface of the male, from the 
