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HIPPOGLOSSOIDES— GuxMHEK. 



Eyes directed towards the right; mouth wide, teeth small, in a single 

 row: dorsal fin beginning above the eye; lateral line without a curve 

 at its origin; (ventral fins neither close to the throat nor to the anal.) 



LONG ROUGH DAB. 



SANDNECKER. LONG FLEUK. ROUGH FLOUNDER. 



Citharus flavus sive asperus, Rondeletius. 



Pleuronectes Umandoides, Blocu ; pi. 186. Turtox's Linufeus. 



Pleuronecte limandoide, Lacepede. 



Platessa Umandoides, Jexyns; Manual, p 459. Yarkell; 



Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 313. 

 Hippoglossoides Umandoides, Gunther; Catalogue Br. Museum, 



vol. iv, p. 405. 



This fish is scarce and but little known in Britain; so that 

 when obtained it is thought worthy of particular notice. It is 

 especially a native of the north, and is remarked as being 

 taken more commonly than elsewhere ncdr the island of Heligo- 

 land; but it is also enumerated among the fishes of Norway and 

 Sweden, although it does not exist in the Baltic. Southward 

 its range is limited; but it is reported by AVilliam P. Cocks, 

 Esq., as having been purchased in the fish-market at Falmouth. 

 Although we suppose it to have been known to Rondcletius, 

 it is not mentioned as having been met with in the Mediterranean 

 nor anywhere further south. It is said to prefer sandy ground, 

 at a great depth, and its food, as in the generality of this 

 family, is taken from the bottom. ]Mr. Cocks found the stomach 

 of his specimen filled with the shells of Tarritella tcrehra, and 

 two thirds of the number contained hermit crabs — Pagnrus 

 Icecis. It spawns in ^lay and June. 



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