430 DEEP-SEA riSHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



The type specimens (Cat. No. 2C102, U. S. N. M.) were taken by the Fish Hawk from 

 station 875, in 39° 57' N. hit., 70° 57' 30" W. hm., at a ilcpth of 120 fathoms, and from 

 station 8711, iu 39° 57' N. kit., 70° 5(5' \V. Ion., at a depth of 120 fathoms. The Albatross 

 secured examples from station 2398, iu 28° 45' N. lat., 80° 26' W, lou., at a depth of 227 

 fathoms; from station 2399, in 28° 44' N. lat., 86° 18' W. Ion., at a depth of 19(5 fathoms; 

 from station 2143, in 9'=> 30' N. lat., 70° 25' W. lou., at a depth of 890 fathoms; from 

 station 2400, in 28'^ 41' N. lat., SCo 07' W. Ion., at a depth of 109 fatlioms; from station 

 2401, in28o 38' 30" N. lat., 85° 52' 30" W. lou., at a (h-pth of 142 fathoms; and from station 

 24(t2, iu 28° 30' N. lat., 85° 33' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 111 fathoms. The JJUde obtained 

 individuals from statiou xv, off St. Kitt's, iu 208 fathoms, and station xxii, oft" St. Kitt's, 

 in 250 fathoms. 



GLYPTOCEPHALUS, Gottsche. 



Glijptoceplialiis, Gottsche, Arcliiv fiir Naturg., l, 1835, 156. — Bleeker, Comp. Rend. Acad. .Sci. Amsterdam, 

 xin. — Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1873, 360. — Goodb aud Bean, Proc. U. S.Nat. Mu.s., i, 19. — Jor- 

 dan and Gilbert, Bull, xvi, U. S. Nat. Mas., 837. 



Dextral pleiuouectoids with body elongate, greatly comi^ressed. Head small aud short, 

 with many sinuses aud mucous cavities iu skull, as well as ou mandible and preopercle on 

 blind side. Mouth very small; teeth in single series, moderate, incisor-like, equal, dose 

 set; vomer and palatines toothless. (Jill rakers short, weak. Lower pharyngeals narrow, 

 with 1 or 2 rows of conical teeth. Lateral line simple, uearly straight; scales smooth, 

 small. Dorsal and anal Bus elongate, with more than 90 rays in the dorsal and more than 

 80 iu the anal; caudal rounded; an anal spine. 



GLYPTOCEPHALUS CYNOGLOSSUS, (Lixnjeus), Gill. (Figures 356 A, B.) 



Pleuronectes oculis a dextrin tottis ylahcr, Aktedi, Geu. 11, N. 3; Mas. IchtU. No. 39; Synon. 31, No. 3. 



Pleuronccies cynoijloa^us, Linnjeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, 1758, 269; ed. xii, 1766, i, 456. — Guntiier, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mas.. IV, 1862, 449; Challenger Report, x.\[i, 1887, 166. — Day, Fishes of Great Britain aud Ireland, 

 II, 30, pi. cm. 



Glyptocejihalus cynoglossua, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1873, 61. — Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., I, 19; Bull. Essex lust., xi, 1879, 6; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., x, 1883, 195. — Jordan and Gil- 

 bert, loc. clt. — Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., in. 475.— Collett, Norske Nord-Havs Exped., Fiske, 150; 

 Forhandl. Vidcusk. Selsk. Christiania, 1880, 82.— StrOm, Norsk. Vidensk. Selsk. Skril't., 1881, 39. 



Plaiessa cynoglossus, Moreau, Hist. Nat. Poiss. France, in, 296. 



Pleuroiiectts pola, hxcApknn, Hist. Nat. Poiss. (Suites il Butfon), 1819, iv, 401. 



Platessa pola, Cuviek. — Parnell, Nat. Hist. Fish. Frith of Forth, 1838, 210, pi. xxxviii. — Yaurell, Hist. 

 Brit. Fish., 1841, li, 315.— Couch, Fishes British Islands, in, 1864, 190. 



Pleuronectes saxicola, Faber, Isis, 1828, 877. 



Glyptocephahia saxicola, Gottsche, loc. cit. 



Pleuronectes nigromanus, Nilsson, Prodr. Ichth. Scand., 1832, 55. 



Plaiessa elongata, Yarrell, op. cit. 318. — Gunther, op. cit. 450. — Couch, op. cit. 193. 



OlyptocephaUis elonijatus, Gill, op. cit. 362. 



Glyploeephalus acadianus, Gill, oj). cit. 361, aud iu B.vird'.s Report ou Fisheries of South Coast of New Eng- 

 land, 1873, 794. 



A Olyptoceiyhnlus, having the height of body 3 times (moreor less) iu itsowu length; the 

 length of the head about 5.V times. Scales small; head scaly, except on snout aud ridge 

 between the eyes. Lateral line straight. Snout shorter than diameter of orbit, which is 

 one-fourth of length of head. Jaws subequal iu front, the maxillary shorter than the eye. 

 Uj^per jaw with truncated incisor-like teeth on the blind side, iu a close-set series of about 

 20. Eyes separated by a sharp ridge, the lower somewhat iu advance. Origin of dorsal 

 flu about middle of eye, its distance from caudal somewhat less than half dei)th of caudal 

 peduncle. Middle dorsal rays longest, more than half as long as head; pectoral half as 

 long as head. 



Eadial formula: 1). 102—120; A. 87—102; L. lat. 125; Vert. 58. 



Color, grayish-brown; nicmbrunes of the fins with dark spots; pectoral of the colored 

 side dark. 



The pole-flounder is a well-known cold-water flsh of Europe. It was obtained by Strom 



