FISHES. BRANCHIOSTEGOUS. 6o. Syngnathus. 893 
where fpottcd with blach. ; has, like the laft, a power of duat- 
ing its body and oreaing its fpines. 
Head fmall, above broad, a little coinpreffed at the fades ; eyes 
larve, iris yellow; nojirils fimple, tubular; woutA narrow; 
upper jaw a little longer, angular in the middle; Jins yellow, 
Ipotred with black, brownilh at the edge, thc rays branched. 
Dorf.i\'. peci.aa'. an. 14: caitd. 9 rays. 
Vertically femioval, nearly truncate behind ; belly carinat.c ; 
dorfal, anal and caudal fins united. 
Inhabits the Atlantic and Ethiopian leas; body comprelled, 
thicker at the head, truncate behind, and terminating in a 
longitudinal thin fm, filvcry white, growing gradually darker 
towards the back. u r .1, 
Eyr deep in the orbits with 2 fpmes above each of them, ins 
fiivery • mouth prominent ; fnout with moveable hooked 
bones with 2 large Ipincs, and between thefe and the 
tail 4 others, all conic and very (harp ; back ss little arched, 
with 2 large fpines and 3 varicofe tubercles ; ridge of belly 
' with 2 large fpines on the fore part, and 1 on the hind part ; 
fides with 2 fliarp, dillant papill®. 
60. SYNGNATHUS. Head fmall ; /nowi 
nearly cylindrical, long, turned up at 
the end ; inoutlh ternmnal, without 
teeth or tongue, and furniQied with a 
lid ; the lower jaw moveable : gill- 
large, ftriate, clofed : fpiracle on 
the nape, tubular : body jointed, mail- 
ed with many-fided fcales; ventral 
fins o. Pipe-Jiflu 
Thefe inhabit the Ocean, near ftiores ; feed on letfer worms and 
infefts, and the fpawn of other filh ; under the tail, com- 
mencing at the vent, is a longitudinal 
the young and the eggs ; eyes fmall, covered y the fides with 
■palate fmooth ; gill-membrane thin, placed on the nape , Jin;, 
Imall, thin, the rays undivided; lateral line oi 
