. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. Ifl Fig. 82.—Sea horse (Hippocampus hudsonius) of the body, the sea horse grotesquely resembles the "knight" in an ordinary set of wooden chessmen. The head is surmounted by a pentagonal star-shaped coronet, and the snout is tubular with the small oblique mouth at its tip, like that of its relative the pipefish. There is a sharp spine on each side above and one behind the eye, a third over the gill cover, and a fourth on the side of the throat, which some- times terminate in ci
. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. Ifl Fig. 82.—Sea horse (Hippocampus hudsonius) of the body, the sea horse grotesquely resembles the "knight" in an ordinary set of wooden chessmen. The head is surmounted by a pentagonal star-shaped coronet, and the snout is tubular with the small oblique mouth at its tip, like that of its relative the pipefish. There is a sharp spine on each side above and one behind the eye, a third over the gill cover, and a fourth on the side of the throat, which some- times terminate in cirri, besides a blunt horn between the nostrils. Neck, body, and tail are covered with rings of bony plates, 12 rings on the trunk, 32 to 35 on the tail, and each body ring is armed with four blunt spines. The dorsal fin (about 19 rays) originates about midway of the length of the fish, opposite the vent, and runs backward over three and one-half rings—that is, to within half a ring of the commencement of the tail. The very small anal stands opposite the posterior " Tracy, 1910, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States Fish Commission. Washington, The Commission, Govt. Print. Off
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