The natural history of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals . AsTROCANTHus Sw. (fig. 108.) Head and body orbicular^covered with spines; mouth beneath; tail short, com-pressed ; ventrals pedunculated, placed half way be-tween the mouth and the pectorals; dorsal fin single,placed at the base of the tail; the general outline resembling that of Torpedo.* A. stellatus Sw. Lac. i. pL xi. figs. 2, 3. Family 4. SYNGNATHID^. Pipe-fish. Body slender, mailed with angular scaly plates, unitedat their sutures; mouth more or less elongated into atube, at the extremity of which is the mouth
The natural history of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals . AsTROCANTHus Sw. (fig. 108.) Head and body orbicular^covered with spines; mouth beneath; tail short, com-pressed ; ventrals pedunculated, placed half way be-tween the mouth and the pectorals; dorsal fin single,placed at the base of the tail; the general outline resembling that of Torpedo.* A. stellatus Sw. Lac. i. pL xi. figs. 2, 3. Family 4. SYNGNATHID^. Pipe-fish. Body slender, mailed with angular scaly plates, unitedat their sutures; mouth more or less elongated into atube, at the extremity of which is the mouth, the open-ing being vertical; giUs not pectinated, but formed intofascicles, placed in pairs on the branchial arches; theaperture forming a single spiracle. FEGASsusLinn. Body depressed, broad; snout suddenlycontracted, narrow, more or less pointed; the mouthterminal, but placed beneath; pectorals pedunculated,very large; ventrals of a single vermiform ray; tail * This family is very imperfectly understood; those species of Cuvierswhich have scales appear to belong to the t
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