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Genus Limanda Gottsche. 

 Body with rough imbricated scales. Teeth fixed, incisorial. 

 Lateral line arched in front. 



Limanda rostrata Gill. Fluke or common dab. (Perley.) 

 Platessa rostrata, Storer, Boston Jour. Nat. Hist., vi, pi. 8, fig. 2 



Hippoglossin^: Gill. 

 Mouth large. Yentrals lateral. 



Genus Hippoglossoides Gottsche. 

 Body thick. Scales ctenoid ; caudal entire. 

 * Hippoglossoides platessoides Gill ex Fab. 



Hippoglossoides platessoides, Grill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Soc. 1864. 

 Genus Pomatopsetta Gill. 

 Body thin. Scales mostly cycloid, caudal entire. 

 Pomatopsetta dentata Gill. 



Platessa dentata, Storer, Mem. Am. Ac. viii, 391, pi. 30, fig. 3. 

 Genus Hippoglossus Cuv. 

 Body robust, with minute smooth scales, caudal fin emarginated. 

 Hippoglossus Americanus Gill. Halibut. (Perley.) 

 Hippoglossus vulgaris, Storer, Mem. Am. Ac. viii, pi. 



SUB-ORDER ABDOMINALES. 

 Families. 



I. Head plane above and behind. Pectorals inserted rather high 



on the sides. 

 a. Body elongated, with the back and abdomen parallel. 



Lateral line distinct, very low. ScOMBERESOCiDiE. 



j3. Body oblong, subfusiform or oval, with no lateral line. 



Head flat above, with large scales. Poeciliid^e. 



II. Head more or less convex transversely above. Pectorals inserted 



very low on sides. 

 a. Dorsal fin more or less in advance of anal. 



* Adipose dorsal finlet present behind. A lateral line. 



Salmonid^e. 



* * Adipose dorsal finlet none. No lateral line. 



Clupeice. 

 (3. Dorsal and anal fins opposite, far behind. 



* Head with oblong conical depressed snout. 



Esocid^e. 



* * Head rounded in front, with oblique tympanic and 



opercular apparatus, and an enormous mouth. 



StomiatidvE. 

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