SCALDFISH. 



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SUBBRACH'IAL 



MALACOPTERYGIL PLEURONECT1D&. 



THE SCALDFISH. 



MEGRIM, Cornwall. SMOOTH SOLE. 



Rhombus Arnoglossus, Scaldfish, YARHELL. 



,, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 342. 



Arnoglossus lavis, ,, WILI.UGHBY, p. 102, F. 8, fig. 7. 



Pleuronectes casurus, ,, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 325, pi. 53. 



,, Arnoglossus, ,, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 197, sp. 100. 



,, ,, ,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 465. 



Rhombus nudus, ,, Risso, Hist. t. iii. p. 251, sp. 141. 



THE SCALDFISH, or MEGRIM, as it is called in Cornwall, 

 appears, like the species last described, to be in this country, 

 as far as we yet know, exclusively confined to the southern 

 coast, and is only at present recorded as having been taken 

 between Weymouth and the Land's End. 



Mr. Couch says, " he has never known it take a bait, and 

 its diminutive size prevents its being an object of attention to 

 fishermen ; but they say it is much preyed upon by Congers 

 and other large fishes, in the stomachs of which they often 

 find it : it follows from this that it keeps in deep water." It 

 seldom exceeds four or five inches in length ; but Mr. Couch 

 has seen one that measured six inches and a half. M. Risso 

 says the females arc very prolific. 



