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PLEURONECTID.E. 



SUBBRACHIAL 

 MALACOl'TERYGll. 



PLEURONECTIDsE. 



BLOCK'S TOPKNOT. 



Rhombus punctatus, 

 Pieuronectes ,, 

 La petite Limande, 

 Pieuronectes punctatus, 



Rliombus unimaculatus, 

 Pieuronectes punctatus, 



Block's Topknot, YARRELL. 

 BI.OCH, pt. vi. pi. 189. 

 DUHAMEL, sect. ix. pi. 6, fig. 5. 

 FLEM. Wern. Mem. vol. ii. p. 241. 



Phil. Zool. pi. 3, fig. 2. 



,, Brit. An. p. 196, sp. 99. 

 Risso, Hist. torn. iii. p. 252, fig. 35. 

 Block's Topknot, JEN\NS, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 462, 

 sp. 150. 



THE Pieuronectes punctatus of Bloch, or, as it is here 

 called to preserve the appropriation, Bloch's Topknot, is 

 much more rare than the Topknot of Muller ; but appears, 

 like it, to have an extended range. Professor Nilsson in- 

 cludes but one species in his Fishes of Scandinavia, and 

 brings together the trivial names of the hirtus of Muller and 

 the punctatus of Bloch. 



By a paper published in the Swedish language by M. B. F. 

 Fries of Stockholm in 1839, and of which a translation in 



