1 13. PLEURONECTID.E PLEURONECTES. 
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12S6. P. asper Pallas. 
Brown, nearly plain, the blind side with tinges of lemon -yellow. 
Form of P. hilitieafus. Teeth small, almost conical, on both sides of the 
mouth; interorbital space narrow, scaly; opercle and preopercle naked 
below. Gill-rakers very feeble. Pharyngeal s not very broad, their teeth 
bluntish, not paved. Scales small, wide apart, partly imbedded, ea(*h 
one with 1-4 spinules, which are almost erect; anterior scales with 3-4 
of these spinules; posterior mostly with 1; scales of blind side smoother; 
middle rays of dorsal and anal only scaly. Xo accessory lateral line. 
Anal spine present; twentieth anal ray and thirty-seventh dorsal ray 
longest; caudal double truncate. Head 3^; depth 2. D. G9; A. 53. 
Alaska to Kamtschatka. 
{Pleuronectes asper Pallas, Zoogr. Ross.-Asiat. iii, 425, 1811: ricuronectes asper G\in- 
ther, iv, 454: Limanda aspera Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 242.) 
12§7. P. toeani (Goode) J. &. G. 
Grayish, mottled with darker; a conspicuous black blotch on the 
outer rays of caudal on each side. Body elliptical, with angular out- 
lines, strongly compressed; head very short; snout abbreviated; mouth 
small, subvertical ; teeth small, apparently in two rows, chiefly on the 
blind side of lower jaw; eyes large, as long as mandible; interorbital 
space very narrow. Dorsal fin beginning about pupil, its rays long, 
wide apart, exserted ; right ventral near the median line. Caiulal broad, 
fan-shaped. Lateral line with an abrupt curve, the length of which is 
twice its height and about equal to length of head, its scales highly 
specialized; lateral line on colored side less developed. Scales small, 
strongly ctenoid on the right side ; larger and cycloid on the blind side. 
Head 54 ; depth 2f. D. 64 ; A. 63 ; Lat. 1. 8S, 27 scales in its curve. 
Deex^ water otf the Ehode Island coast. {Goode.) 
{Limanda heani Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 473.) 
ee. Lateral liue without auterior arch. 
/. Eyes aud color ou either side ; scales coarse, stellate ; lower pharyugeals hroad, 
with paved teeth. (Flatichthys* Grd.) 
.1288. P. Stell»tus Pallas. — California “Flounder.^’ 
Dark brown or nearly black, with lighter markings; fins reddish 
brown; dorsal and anal with four or five vertical black bands; caudal 
with three or four black longitudinal bands. Body broad and short, 
the snout forming a slight angle with the profile; lower jaw projecting; 
interocular s^iace rather broad, with very rough scales. Large rougli 
*Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1856, 136 : type Platiclitlujs rugosus Grd. {itXazvi, 
flat; fish.) 
