"The Pipe-fish has the head small, the snout long, nearly cylindrical, slightly raised at the end. The fish is about twenty inches long."

The Pipefish (Syngnathus acus)

"The Pipe-fish has the head small, the snout long, nearly cylindrical, slightly raised at the end. The…

"The Trunk-fish, or Ostracion, is without scales, but covered with regular, osseous plates, which are so jointed the one to the other that the body is, as it were, inclosed in a kind of box or long coffer."

The Trunkfish (Ostracion)

"The Trunk-fish, or Ostracion, is without scales, but covered with regular, osseous plates, which are…