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H atu aiian Fishes 



The larger members of the group reach a length of ten or twelve feet 

 and will weigh as much as 500 pounds. 



The members of this family are mostly carnivorous and are distributed 

 on sandy bottoms from the poles to the tropics. They are abundant in 

 the colder regions and there provide many important food fishes. Consider- 

 ing the size of the family, they are poorly represented in the tropics. 



Of more than 500 known species, at least fourteen are known to 

 occur in the Hawaiian Islands. 



Flounder 

 56-1 Taeniopsetta ocellatus (Gunther) 



From Gilbert 



This flounder is light olive brown in color above and is finely speckled 

 and mottled with dark brown. Hawaiian specimens measure about 

 five inches in length and occur between 99 and 220 fathoms. The species 



