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FISHES; ABDOMINAL. 46. Eillularia. 
T^hacar 
46. FISTULARIA. Snout cylindrical^' 
jaws diftant from the eyes : 
brane with 7 rays ; Iwdy round, gentry 
tapering from the jaws to the tail. . 
Tobacco-pipe 
Tail bifid, ending in a (lender taper whip. 
Inhabits America and Japan ; about a foot long, brown. J 
Tail foiki'd, wjtl) a llender appendage, of the 
whale-bone atid about 4 inches long from the middle of * ' 
■Dorf. 8-: ped, 14 : vent, 6 : an, 1^: caud. tg rays. 
Chinsnfts, Tail rounded, without the long appendage. 
Inhabits India, 
DorJ. 26: peci, 16 : vent, 6 : an. 24: caud, it rays. 
Paradoxa, Body reticulate with prominent lines ; tail lanceolate. 
Inhabits Amboina : 2 inches long ; has Ibme refemblance 
C ^1. ._1 n *.1 irr. 1 
Syngnathus ; body whitifli-afh, with obfolcte brown rivy 
the firft dorfal fin a^d tail blackiih ; compreffed, aoc 
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nous at the interleclions of the lines ; back perfeftly tri^f^j 
lar ; belly, towards the ventral fins, nearly triangulari^^.^ 
behind them natrow, and eipaally b-fided ; tail llen®‘' 
■•tt”; 
compreffed, and •y-fided, 
Head rather Ihiall ; eyes large, at the bale of the fnout, 
triangular Ipine each fide before the orbits ; fneut very 
defeending, ftraight, horny, flattifh compreffed, flendefi 1, 
neath with 2 longitudinal ribs, and a fmall conic 
fide towards the back ; jaevs afeending at the end, P°'% ; 
flattened at the fides, dilatable, the lower a little lh®| 
mouth finall ; nape g-fpined ; gill-covers very thin, fn'^’ 
diate with a few prominent lines ; fir ft dorfal fin 
dined, with fmall black bands, the rays fimple ; pectoftt^ 
broad ; ventral very large, the rays deeply many-cleffi 1,, 
connefled by a lax membrane, forming a longitudinal 
DorJ.^, 18: peB. 25; vent. 7 : an. 12: caud. 14 rays* 
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