414 PLEURONECTID^. 



h. Fine specimen. 



I. Adult : skin. 



m. Adult : skeleton : not good state. British. 



The length of the first hcemal spine equals that of the ten anterior 

 vertebrae. 



6. PHRYNORHOMBUS. 



Rhombus, sp., Auct. 



Eyes on the left side. Mouth wide, the length of the maxillary 

 being more than one-third of that of the head. Each jaw with a 

 narrow band of villifonn teeth, without canines ; no vomerine or 

 palatine teeth. The dorsal fin commences on the snout ; nearly all 

 the dorsal and anal rays are branched. Scales very small, spiny. 

 Gill-membranes scarcely united at the throat ; gill-rakers well de- 

 veloped, compressed. Branchiostegals five. 



Coasts of Europe. 



1. Phrynorhombus unimaculatus. 



La petite Limandelle, Duham. Pcsch. iii. sect. 9. p. 270. pi. 6. ig. 5. 



Pleuronectes punctatus, (not Bl.) Flem. Wern. Mem. ii. p. 241 ; Phil. 

 Zool. tab. 3. fig. 2 ; Brit. An. p. 196 ; Jen. Man. p. 462. 



Rhombus punctatus, Yarr. Brit. Fish. ed. 2. ii. p. 338, ed. 3. i. p. 650. 



unimaculatus, Risso, Fur. Merid. iii. p. 252. fig. 35 (bad) ; Bwiap. 



Faun. Ital. Pesc. ; Niks. Skand. Faun. Fish. p. 645. 



uniocellatus, Nardo, Prodr. Ichth. Adriat. no. 135. 



B. 5. D. 78-79. ^. 67. 

 Dorsal and anal fins turned over posterity on the blind side of the 

 taU, where the last rays form a small flap. Ventrals disconnected from 

 the anal. The height of the body is nearly one-half of the total length 

 (without caudal), the length of the head two-sevenths. Scales small, 

 but very distinct, each with about four spines at its posterior margin ; 

 head and fin-rays entirely covered with minute rough scales. The 

 lateral line makes a subsemicircular curve above the pectoral. The 

 lower jaw is slightly prominent ; the length of the maxillaiy is one- 

 half, or rather more than one-half, of that of the head. Snout obtuse, 

 longer than the eye, the diameter of which is one-sixth of the length of 

 the head. Eyes separated by a very narrow and elevated ridge, the 

 lower being a little in advance of the upper, and sometimes provided 

 with a slender tentacle. The dorsal fin commences a httle before 

 the vertical from the front margin of the lower eye, and is continued 

 on to the root of the caudal. The fii-st ray is produced into a fila- 

 ment, ono-thu'd as long as the head. The first dorsal ray is some- 

 times prolonged and filamentous. GiU-rakers rather Avidcly set, half 

 as long as the eye. Brownish-grey, with blackish spots : one at the 

 end of the curve of the lateral line ; a reddish oceUus edged with 

 black on the middle of the tail. 



From the Mediterranean to the coasts of Great Britain. 

 a. Fine specimen. Dalmatia. 

 h-e. Adult : skins. Plymouth and Weymouth. 



