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XIX. FA.AIILY OF THE FLAT FISH. 

 PLEURONECTID^. 



Rfi^presentatives in Briihh Fauna. — Gen. 5, Sp. 18 



Gen. 81. Platessa. 8p. 1 (><',. P. vvJ/jaris. . Common Plaice. 

 \(')i). P.fieaus. . . Flounder. 

 1 70. P. IhfMwla. . The Dab. 

 1 7 1 . P. microce'phala.. Smooth or Lemon 



Dab. 

 \l%P.PoU. . . Pole-Flnke, or 

 Pole-lJab. 



173. /\liraandfjides. Sandsucker. 



1 74. P. elori/jata. . Long Flounder. 

 82. H1PPOGLOS.SUS. 1 In. II. vvJf/aris. . The Ilolibut. 

 815. Rhombus. . ]7f<. R.maxclraus. . Turbot. 



\11. R.xulrjaris. . The Brill. 



MVi. R.hirtus. . . MuUer'sTopknol. 



\1'.). R.jtv/fi/slatv^. . Blochtt ditto. 



\W).R.mc(j(Xistoma. The WhifF. 



\'<',\. R. A rnofjlossvAs. The Scaldfish. 



84. SoLEA. . . ]P>2. S.vvJr/aris. . Common Sole. 



1 i'>o. S. Pefjv^a. . . Lemon Sole. 



85. MoNOCHiRUS. li'A. M. variefjatvJi. Variegated Sole. 



1 o .'j . M. liwjvMtulv^. Sol enette. 



The characters of tliis family are so peculiar as to 

 render it one of the most marked and in.sulated 

 groups in the Avhole tribe of fishes, nay, as Cuvier 

 remarks, in the wliole series of vertehrul animals. 

 The most singular circumstance is the want of sym- 

 metry in certain of the parts ; that is to say, if a 



