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5. PSEUDORHOMBUS CINNAMOMEUS (Schlegel). 

 GANZOBIRAME (GANZO.a HALIBUT), 



Rhoinhutf chnuuiioiiu'tis Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1846, p. 180, pi. xciii 

 (Nagasaki). — Bleeker, Act. Soc. Ind. Nederl., Ill, Japan p. 25 (Nagasaki). 



Pscudorlinnihus cirniamomeus GvtiTBER, Cat., IV, 1862, p. 427 (Nagasaki). — Nam- 

 iye, Class. Cat, 1881, p. 110 (Tokyo). — Otaki, Journ. Imp. Bureau Fish, 

 Tokyo, 1897, p. 6, pi. iii, lig. 2 (S. E. Japan). —Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, 

 p. 25 (Kishin, Tosa). 



JiliDuilnscns cinv(i)iiO)iiens Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1900, [>. 

 379 (Tokyo); Check-List, p. 121 (Yokohama, Nagasaki). — Jordan and 

 Seale, Proc. Davenport Ac. Sci., X, 1905, p. 16, (Ilong Kong). 



llahlt(d. — Coasts of SoutluTn Japan and China, north to Tokj'o. 



Head. 8f in lon^^th to l)ase of caudal; depth, 1,%; 03^0, 5f in head; 

 snout, 5; niaxilhiiT, ^ij; dorsal, 79; anal, (II; pores in lateral line, SO. 



E^-es nearly vertical or the lower ver}' slig"htly more posterior; 

 separated by a narrow, rather hig'h, sharp, naked ridge; maxillary 

 reaching- to below posterior edge of lower e3"e; gape of mouth 

 ver}' nuich arched; teeth rather sharp and irregular in position and 

 size; front of mandible truncate and subvertical; lower margin con- 

 cave, and posterior end forming a conspicuous angle on lower side of 

 head; gillrakers, short and pointed, teethed on the inner margin, the 

 longest % of diameter of pupil, S or 9 developed on lower limb c^f arch. 



Dorsal l)eginning on blind side opposite front of upper e5^e; pecto- 

 ral rather slender, its base nearly- horizontal, reaching- a little past 

 angle of lateral line; length of pectoral of eyed side If in liead; that 

 of blind side 2i; ventrals rather small, that of eyed side a little nearer 

 aV>dominal ridge than the other and a verv little more anterior; length 

 of ventral of eyed side contained 4 times in head; caudal double trun- 

 <'ate, the nnddle ra3's reaching a sharp point, their length contained 

 If in head; height of curve of lateral line 3| in head; length of 

 curve li; scales everywhere ctenoid except anteriorly on blind side; 

 posterior part of mandible and maxillary- with a few rough scales, 

 otherwise naked; snout and interorbital ridge naked. 



Color of bod3' uniform brown ista with a spot at angle of lateral line, 

 sometimes large and diffused, sometimes small and distinct; tins light 

 and indefinitely speckled with light brown; slight traces of cross- 

 streaks on ventral, none on pectoral. 



Here describe from a specimen 23 cm. in length from Tokyo. 

 Other specimens from Tsuruga, Wakanoura, Kobe, Onomichi, Naga- 

 saki, Ilukata, Kawatana, and Tokyo. We have also a young example 

 from Hongkong. 



This species is one of the commonest of eTapanese floiuiders, standing 

 in that regard next to ParcdicJdhys oUvaceus. 



« Ganzo, a proper name, as Johnny-halibut. 



