113. PLEURONECTID.®: GLYPTOCEPHALUS. 
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separate, broad, with coarse teeth. Head depth 2. D. 55; A. 40; 
Lat. 1. 70 (pores). L. 10 inches. Atlantic coast; chiefly northward. 
(Flatessa glabra Storer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, i, 130, 1843, and Fish. Mass. 393, 
pi. 31, f. 1: Euchalarodus xmtnami Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, male ; 
Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 347: Liopsetta glabra Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phila. 1864, 217.) 
1398.. P. g'lacialis Pallas. 
Dark brown, the fins spotted. Form of P. glaher. A roughened ridge 
above the cheeks and opercles on the eyed side. Eyes separated by a 
iiajTOW smooth bony ridge. Scales minute, imbedded, non-imbricate, 
ctenoid in the males, smooth in the females; scales on bliud side sim- 
ilar, less developed; scales of lateral line a little larger. Teeth col- 
ored, incisor-like, forming an even edge, mostly on blind side. An 
anal spine; pectorals short. Head4; depth2^. D. 50; A. 42. xYlaska 
to Northern Siberia. 
(Pallas, Itin. iii, App. 70S; Pallas, Zoogr. Ross. Asiat. iii, 424: Pleuronectes glacial is 
Richardson, Fauna, Bon.-Amet. Fisli. 2.58; Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1«8I, 241 : Pltn- 
ronectes cicatricosus Pallas, Zoogr. Ross.-Asiat. iii, 424 (<?, D. 59; A. 36): Pleuronectes 
franklini Gunther, iv, 442, 1862 ( 9, D. 56; A. 37). 
gg. Scales well imbricated, strongly ctenoid; lower pharyngeals narrow, with conic 
teeth. {Pseuclopleuronectes Bleeker.*) 
1393. P. americaiiHS Walbaum. — Winter flounder ; Mud dab. 
Dark rusty brown, spotted or nearly plain ; young olive brown, more 
or less spotted and blotched with reddish. l>ody elliptical, an angle 
above eye. Head covered above with imbricated, strongly ctenoid scales 
similar to those on the body; blind side of head nearly naked; inter- 
orbital space rather broad, strongly convex, its width half eye; the 
space entirely scaled; teeth compressed, incisor-like, and widened to- 
wards tips, close-set, forming a continuous cutting edge; some of teetli 
often emarginate, sometimes movable; right side of both jaws tooth- 
less. Highest dorsal rays less than length of pectorals, and more than 
half length of head; anal spine present. Head 4 in length; depth 2:^. 
D. 65; A. 48; Lat. 1. 83. Coast of oSiew York, northward ; abundant. 
(Wulbaum, Artedi, Pise. 1792, 113; Giiuther iv, 413: Platessa plana Storer, Fish. 
Mass. 373.) 
459.— GLYPTOCEPMAILPS Gottsche. 
(Gottsche, Wiegmann’s Archiv. 1835, 156: type Ghjptocepbalus saxicola Gottsche= 
Pleuronectes cgnoglossus L.) 
Eyes and color on the right side. Body extremely elongate, more 
than twice as long as deep; much compressed. Head very small and 
*Bleeker, Comtes Reudus. Acad. Sci. Amst. xiii, 1862: type Platessa plana Storer. 
{tpEvdoS, false; nXEvpoi'ifx^V^} Pleuronectes.) 
