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series, long, slender, and wide set, much smaller and closer set heliind; on 

 sides of jaw the teeth are very small and iu 2 distinct series, the inner of 

 which corresponds to the single series in front, the teeth thus gradually 

 increasing in size forward; teeth in inner series of lower jaw very sharp 

 and slender, longer than the upper teeth, wide set, alternating with 

 shorter, depressed teeth ; outside of these larger teeth is a series of fixed 

 small teeth; all of the long teeth in both jaws depressible and conspicu- 

 ously arrow-shaped toward their tips; inner series of small teeth in upper 

 jaw also arrow-shaped, depressible; iuterorbital space scaly, ridged, not 

 a third width of eye. Gill rakers long and strong, about 4 -f- 13 in number, 

 the longest more than \ diameter of eye. Upper eye with its range entirely 

 vertical. Scales extremely thin, irregular in size, not evenly imbricated ; 

 lateral line very prominent. Dorsal fin beginning just behind the middle 

 of the eye ; caudal peduncle nearly as long as the pectoral fin, about | 

 length of head. Plain olive brown, the margins of the scales darker; 

 blind side dusted with black points. Length 2 feet. Bering Sea to San 

 Francisco, common northward; not rare in deep water off San Francisco, 

 and is brought iu in considerable numbers from the sweep-nets {jtarran- 

 zelle) used in Drakes Bay. At Unalaska it occurs commonly in shallow 

 water. In the north the flesh is firmer and the coloration more pro- 

 nounced. Dr. Gilbert dredged it in abundance on both sides of' the 

 peninsula of Alaska and in Bristol Bay, in 32 to 406 fathoms. Mr. Scofield 

 found it abundant in Chignik Bay, and it was taken by us in 1897 at Uuga 

 and Karluk. {dzo/uiai, large mouthed.) 



Platysomatichthys stomias, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 51, 301, San 



Francisco. (Coll. Jordan & Gilbert.) 

 Atheresthes stotiiia.i, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1880, 57, 454 ; Bean, Proc. U. 



S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 242; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881,66; Jordan & 



Gilbert, Synopsis, 820, 1883 ; Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1883, 354; Jordan, Nat. Hist. 



Aqnat. Anim., 188, pi. 53, 1884; Jordan A. Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 236, pi. 1, 



1889; Gilbert, Kept. U. S. Fish Comm. 1893 (1896), 459. 



1014. REINHARDTIUS, Gill. 



Reinhardtius, Gill, Cat. Fishes East Coast N. A., 50, 1861 (hippoglosgoides; no descrip- 

 tion). 



Plafijtomatichthys, Bleeker, Comptes Rendus, Ac. Sci. Amsterdam, xiii, 1862, 426 {pin- 

 guis = hippoglossoides) . 



Reinhardtius, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 218 (hippoglosgoides). 



Eyes and color on right side. Body more or less elongate, compressed ; 

 head long and large; mouth large; maxillary i-eachiug beyond eye; jaws 

 with strong, unequal teeth, the upper with 2 series in front, these con- 

 verging behind; lower jaw with a single series of strong, distant teeth; 

 no teeth on vomer or palatines. Gill rakers few, short, stout, and rough. 

 Fins rather low; caudal fin lunate. Lower pharyngeal teeth iu 1 row. 

 Scales small, cycloid; lateral line without anterior curve. One species 

 known, an arctic fish, in some degree intermediate between the true halibut 

 and Alhcrcsthcs. (Named for Prof. Johann Reiuhardt, of the University of 

 Copenhagen, an able investigator of the fishes of Greenland.) 



