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Dorsal low, beginning over front of eye, some of the anterior rays 

 exserted, but not elongate the longest rays behind middle of fin, not 

 quite one-half head; anal spine obsolete. Grayish, thickly mottled 

 with darker and somewhat translucent; four large, horizontally 

 oblong, black ocelli, each surrounded by a pinkish area, one just 

 behind middle of the body below the dorsal, one opposite this above 

 anal, two similar smaller spots below last rays of dorsal and above 

 last of anal. 



II. PLEURONECTiN.B. The Flouuder Tribe. 



Mouth small, unsymmetrical, the jaws on the eyed-side with 

 nearly straight outline, the bones on the blind strongly curved; 

 dentition chiefly developed on the blind side; eyes large; pectoral 

 fins well developed; vertical fins well separated; ventral fins nearly 

 or quite symmetrical, that of the eyed-side not prolonged along the 

 ridge of the abdomen; anal spine usually strong. Body dextral. 



LIMANDA. 



Teeth chiefly uniserial; lateral line with a distinct arch in front, 

 and without accessory dorsal branch; scales imbricated, rough 

 ctenoid; vertebrae about 40. Differs from Pseudopleuronectes by 

 the arch in the lateral line. 



5. Limanda ferruginea. Rusty Dab. 



Head 4 in length, depth 2 1-5. D. 85; A. 62; Scales 100. Body 

 ovate-elliptical, strongly compressed; teeth small, conical, close-set, 

 in a single series on each side in each jaw, about 11+30 in the lower 

 jaw; snout projecting, forming a strong angle above upper eye, 

 with descending profile; gill rakers of moderate length, very weak, 

 not toothed; eyes moderate; the lower slightly in advance of upper, 

 separated by a high very narrow ridge, which is scaled posteriorly, 

 and is continued backward as an inconspicuous but rough ridge to the 

 beginning of the lateral line; scales imbricate, nearly uniform, those 



