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A History of the Fishes of Massachusetts. 
By DAVID HUMPHREYS STORER, M.D., A.A.S. 
(Continued from Vol. VI. p. 372.) 
GENUS II. PLATESSA, Cov. 
Body rhomboidal, depressed; both eyes generally on the right side of the head, 
one above the other; a row of teeth in each jaw, with others on the pharyngeal 
bones; dorsal fin commencing over the upper eye, that fin and the anal extend- 
ing nearly the whole length of the body; but neither of them joined to the tail; 
branchiostegous rays six. 
Eyes on the Right Side of the Head. 
PLATESSA PLANA, Storer. 
The Flounder. 
(PLATE XXX. Fic. 2.) 
Pleuronectes planus, New York Flat-fish, Mrrcn., Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., 1. p. 387. 
= plana, Flounder of Massachusetts, Storer, Report, p. 143. 
* — New York Flat-fish, Dexay, Report, p. 295, pl. 48, fig. 154, and pl. 49, fig. 158. 
- * Ayres, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., rv. p. 276. 
gé * STORER, Mem. Amer. Acad., New Series, 11. p. 476. 
yy op di Synopsis, p. 224. 
Color. 'The smaller and middling-sized specimens, when first taken from the 
water, are of a greenish-brown tinge, more or less spotted and blotched with rusty 
brown. The larger individuals are of a general rusty-brown color; or a dark, 
blackish brown, or a dull slate-color scarcely exhibiting any spots. The left side 
is colorless. Pupils black, irides golden. The dorsal, anal, and caudal fins are 
yellowish-brown; the two former are generally blotched with darker brown. The 
pectorals and ventrals are of the color of the right side of the fish. 
Description. The greatest depth of this species is less than half of its length 
exclusive of the tail. The head is about two fifths the length of the fish includ- 
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