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subellipticjil, tho .snout rather pointed and not forming an angle above 

 eye; mouth rather small, maxillary reaching scarcely to the middle of 

 the lower eye; interorbital space rather broad, one-half width of eye; 

 a rather prominent rugose ridge above opercle, with a smaller similar 

 ridge behind it; both sides of jaws with teeth, those on blind side 

 stronger; origin of dorsal over middle of upper eye. Color brown, 

 with vague dusky spots; 6 or 7 blackish vertical bars on dorsal and 

 anal; similar lengthwise blotches on caudal. Okhotsk Sea, east to 

 Kamchatka (Steindachner.) Not seen by us. 



Schmidt refers the species to Liopi<etta., to which it probably belongs. 

 {pinna^ tin; fasciatm^ banded). 



25. PLATICHTIIYS Girard. " 



Plafichthiis CrUiMiu, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, p. 186 {rngosus—stellatus). 



Body ver}^ robust, )n-oad, not greatly compressed. Mouth small; 

 teeth chiefly uniserial, incisor-like. Scales all in both sexes and on 

 both sides of body reduced to coarse scattered stellate tubercles, which 

 are not imbricated; similar tubercles l)etween bases of dorsal and anal 

 rays; lateral line without scales, with no interior arch or accessory 

 lateral line; lower pharvngeals broad, each with 3 rows of blunt coarse 

 teeth. A single species, the largest of the small-mouthed flounders, 

 and distinguished from related forms chiefly by the development of 

 coarse stellate tubercles instead of scales. 



{TtXaTvg^ flat; iX(::>v?:, flsh.) 



41. PLATICHTHYS STELLATUS (Pallas). 

 TAKANOHAGAREI (HAWK'S CREST FLOUNDER); NUMAGAREI (SWAMP FLOUNDER). 



PI r uronectes stellatus Fali. AS, Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, III, 1811, p. 416 (Kam- 

 chatka, Aleutian, and Kuril Islands). — (tunthek, Cat.,LV, 1862, p. 443. — 

 Steindachnek, Pleur. von Decastris Bay, 1870, p. 1. — Jordan and Gilbert, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 1880, p. 453; IV, 1881, p. 68.— Bean, Proc. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus., IV, 1881, p. 420.— Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, 1883, p. 835.— 

 Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VI, 1883, p. 353; Cat. Coll. Fish., U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 1883, p. 20.— Jordan, Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim., 1884, p. 184, pi. xlvi.— 

 Otaki, Journ. Bureau Fish, 1897, p. 7, pi. vi, fig. 6 (Northern Japan). — 

 IsiiiKAWA and MATSu'tJRA, Prel. Cat., p. 25 (Hokkaido). 



Platessa slellata De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 1842, p. 301. — Storer, Synopsis, 

 1846, p. 478. 



Platichthys stcllatns Lockington, Rep. Com. Fish. Cal., 1878-79, p. 43; Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, p. 91. — Jordan and Goss, Review Flounders and 

 Soles, 1889, p. 296.— Jordan and Evermann, Fish. North. Mid. Am., 1898, 

 III, p. 2652 (Robbenl., Saghalin, Alaska, California, etc.).— Jordan and 

 Gilbert, Fur Seal Explr., Ill, 1898, p. 492 (Alaska, etc.).— Jordan and 

 Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1900, p. 379 (Robben I).— Schmidt, 

 Faune Pise. Mar. Orient, 1904, p. 240 (Japan Sea; Ochotsk Sea; Vladivostok; 

 Mayka; Makliodka; Arakul; Shumanshin; Amur River; Petropaulsky; 

 Hakodate; Saghalin). 



Platirlitliys rugoans Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, pp. 139, 155 (San 

 Francisco; Presidio; Petal uma).— Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv., X, Fishes, 

 1858, p. 148. 



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