FLATFISHES (HETEROSOMATA) 



Fig. ^^a 



Judging from a drawing of the type-specimen jNu ^3404 made by Col. Tenison. 

 Xyslretirvs nbeirui. Fowler and Bean, from Rio de Janeiro, is probably this species ' 

 The proportions, scale and fin-ray counts, etc., are almost identical, but the drawmg 

 shows a distinct supratemporal l)ranch of the lateral line. 



J. I'ARALU H rnVS DENTATUS (Linnaeus). 



Sr.MMhK FLfirNiii:R.| 



PUuronectes dentatus, I.iiiiiapus. n^u, Sv,l. .\.il,, cd. i-'. p. .|iS; .Mitchill, iSii. Tr, Lit. I'hjl. 



Soc. N. York, i, p. 3((('. 

 I'lcurnnectt's tnelanojiaster, Mitchill, 181s, torn, cit., p. 390. 

 I'lalfssa occltaris, De Kay, 1842, N.H.Ncw York (Fish.), p. y«j. 

 Fseudfirhombus occllaris, (iunther, 1862, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 430. 

 ( hcrnopsc-lta ocellarii. Gill, 1864, Proc. .'Xcad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 218. 

 t'seudorhnmhii'. drntafu-., <, oc.de and Ik. 111, iSNd, I'roc. U.S. N'at, .Mus., u. (I87'll, p. I-'V 



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