Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America, 2665 



Jordan at Havana with this species. In the Museum of Compaiative 

 Zoology arc other sijecimens similar to these, sent to Camljridge by Poey. 

 In several respects these specimens agree fairly with Poey's /'. dlipHcns, 

 but that species is said to have 104 dorsal rays, {macula, spot; fero, I 

 bear. ) 



I I'leuronecUs maculiferus, Poey, Memorias, ii, 316, 1860, Cienfuegos. (Coll. Poey.) 

 1 Rhomhoidichthys macxiliferus,Vo^Y, Syiio{)si.s, 408,1868; Poey, Enuuieratio, 139,1875. 

 I'latophrijg macidifer, Jordan & Goss. lleview Flounders ,ind Sole.s, 267, 1889. 

 I'latophri/s ellipticus, Jordan, Proc. U. S. If at. Mus. 1886, 51 ; not of Poey. 



3034. PLATOPHRIS ELLIPTIIUS (Poey). 



Depth If. D. 105; A. 80; scales 91. Body elliptical, ovate; anterior 

 profile of bead convex before the interorbital area; pectoral short; inter- 

 orbital space 2f in head; body deep. Color (specimen 4f inches long) 

 grajish, much spotted and mottled with whitish; no blue (in young exam- 

 ple). Cuba. Poey describes his P. ellipticus as having 104 dorsal rays. 

 In none of our other species does the number of these rays reach 100. 

 Among the specimens sent by Poey to the museum at Cambridge is 1, 

 described above, 4f inches long, which has 105 dorsal rays. We have 

 therefore assumed that the species to which this specimen belongs is the 

 real P. ellipticus, and that the one heretofore called /'. ellipticus is Poey's 

 P. maculifer. Both these assumptions are open to considerable doubt. 

 {ellipticus, elliptical.) 



? Pleuronectes elliiMcus, PoEX, Memorias, n, 315, 1860, Cuba. (Coll. Poey.) 



1 liomboidichthys ellipticHis,Gv:iT:HER,Cat., IV, 434, 1862; Poey, Synopsis, 408, 1868; Poey, 



Enumeratio, 139, 1875. 

 Platophryg ellipticus, Jordan & Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 267, 1889. 



3035. PLATOPHRYS LUXATUS (Liun;inis). 



(Peacock Flounder. ) 



Head 3| in length ; depth 2. D. 93; A. 70; scales 90; lower eye 6 in head; 

 maxillary 2f; interorbital 2? ; highest dorsal rays2j; highest anal rays 2^; 

 caudal U; base of ventral of eyed side 3^. Vertebnc 9 + 30 = 39. Body 

 elliptical, ovate, strongly compressed; anterior profile concave, the snout 

 projecting, leaving a reentrant angle above it ; mouth moderate, the maxil- 

 lary reaching to middle of pupil of lower eye; jaws subequal, the lower 

 with a well-developed knob at symphysis, teeth small, in an irregular 

 double series in each jaw; anterior end of maxillary with a large blunt 

 8j)ine, pointing outward and forward, a smaller one behind it on upper 

 edge of maxillary, pointing upward and backward; interorbital very 

 wide and deeply concave; orlntal rim, below on upper orbit, above on 

 lower, broken up into blunt papillae ; gill rakers short and thick, 9 devel- 

 oped on lower part of arch, none on upper. Anterior part of interorbital, 

 snout, maxillary, and mandible, naked; scales all cycloid; the rays of 

 dorsal and anal with scales, a few on ventral of eyed side; arch of lateral 

 line 5 in straight part. Pectoral of eyed side filamentous, reaching to base 

 of caudal, its mate of opposite side shorter, about If in head; origin of 

 dorsal over snout ; ventral of eyed side with a long base, extending from 

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