Jordan and Evennann. — Fishes of North America. 2615 



former Laving a somewhat greater mimber of fin rays. Thus Greenland 

 specimens, according to Collett, have D. 88, A. 69; specimens from Fin- 

 marli have D. 92, A. 72'; these representing the var. 2)lafessoide8. Specimens 

 from England (var. limandoidcn) have D. 80, A. 66, while those from inter- 

 mediate localities present in general hn formulas likewise intermediate, 

 showing that no sharj) division is possible. This is a rather common food- 

 tish of the deep waters northward, on both sides of the ocean. North 

 Atlantic, south to Cape Cod, and the coasts of England and Scandinavia. 

 (Eu.) (jjlatessa, the plaice; sidoi, resemblance.) 



Pletironectes linguatvla, MOi.ler, Zool. Dan. Prodromus, 45, 1776; not of Linn^us. 



Pieuronectes platessoides, Fabbicius, Fauna Grcenlandica, 164, 1780, Greenland. 



Pleuronectes limandoide$, Blqch, Ausl. Fisclie, ni, 24 tab. 186, 1787, Europe, and of various 

 copyiats. 



Pleuronectes limandanus, Parnell, Edinburgh New Phil. Journ. 1835, 210. 



Githarus platessoides, Keinhardt, Kongl. Dansk. Vid. Selsk., 116, 1838. 



Drepanopsetta jilatessoides. Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast N. A., 50, 1861. 



Hippoglossoides platessoides. Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1864, 217; Collett, Norske 

 Nord-Havs. Exped., 144, 1880; Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 471 ; Jordan & Gil- 

 bert, Synopsi-s, 826, 1883; Steaens, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, 125; Goode, Nat. Hist. 

 Aqu.atic Anim., 197,pl. 55, 1884; Jordan & Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 240, pi. 

 4, 1889 ; GoODE & Bean, Ocean Ichthyology, 438, 1896, and of recent American writers 

 generally. 



Hippoglossoides limandoides, Gunther, Cat., iv, 405, 1862; Day, Fishes Great Britain and 

 Ireland, ll, 9, pi. 45, 1884. 



Hippoglossoides limanda, Gottsche, Archiv fur Naturgesch. 1835,168; not PI. limanda, 



LlNN^DS. 



Platessa dentata, SxoRER.Rept. Fish. Mass., 143, 1839; De Kay, N. T. Fauna: Fishes, 298, 



1842 ; Storeb, Synopsis, 476, 1846. 

 Hippoglossoides dentatus, GOnther, Cat., iv, 406, 1862 ; GOnther, Challenger Report, xxii. 



Fishes, 3, 1887. 

 Pomatopsetta dentata. Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1804, 217. • 



2J)S1. HIPPOGLOSSOIDES ELASSODON, Jordan & Gilbert. 



Head U ; depth 24 ; eye 4 in head. D. 77 to 87; A. 59 to 67; V. 6; scales 

 45-100-40. Body oblong-elliptical; caudal peduncle about as long as 

 deep; upper profile of head continuous with the outline of back; depres- 

 sion over eye slight ; mouth rather large, the gape curved, considerably 

 wider on the blind side; lower jaw projecting, with a symphyseal knob; 

 maxillary narrow, reaching beyond middle of pupil, 2i in head ; teeth 

 small, close set, nearly uniform, in a single row. Gill rakers slender, 

 smooth, 14 to 16 below arch, the longest nearly I diameter of orbit. Eyes 

 large, separated by a narrow, knife-like ridge, which is naked, or with a 

 single series of scales. Scales small, firm, rough, those on tail roughest, 

 those on blind side similar, mostly smooth anteriorly. Lateral line ris- 

 ing anteriorly, but without arch; dorsal beginning immediately in front 

 of pupil; anal preceded by a spine; caudal long; pectoral of eyed side 

 i length of head; veutral reaching past front of anal; pectoral and ven- 

 tral of eyed side with prickle-like scales. Brownish, nearly uniform, 

 sometimes spotted with darker; fins grayish, irregularly blotched with 

 dusky. Body sometimes sinistral. Length 18 inches. Bering Sea south 

 to Cape Fattery ; a rather abundant shore fish in Puget Sound, and it 



