KL.Vl FISH lis (HKIKKOSOMATA) 



ica. from tin 



DlSTRIBl'TION- Atl.intir coast of North A 

 Florida. 



SPKCIMENS K.XAMIN'EI) : 



1 (440 mm.). 



2 (128, 130 mm.). 



I) (35-8.3 ,. ). 



4 (1IO-I40 ,. ). 



Woods Hoi,-, .M.1,^. 

 Hampton Roads. 

 Charleston Harbonr. S. C.i 



St of Maine' to 



I'.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Mus. Comp. Zoul. 

 Charleston Mus. 



Also 2 young specimens from Florida (.Mus. Comp. Zool ). and the type and .second 

 specimen (Linnean Soc). 



This species is saiil to attain a length of about 3 feet and a weight of about 15 

 pounds. 



Hussakof (1914, Bull. .\mer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxiii, p. 95, figs.) has described 

 two examples of this species partially pigmented on the blind side (see p. 24). 



Pleuronectes melanogaster appears to have been an ambicolorate example of this 

 species. 



3. PARALICHTHYS LETHOSTIC;MA, Jordan and Gilbert. 



^Southern Flounder.] 



nalf.-.ii MuHfu {mm .\Iitc hill), De Kay, 1842, N.H. New York (Fish.), p. 290, pi. xlviii, lig. 150. 

 Pseudorhumbus oblongus, Giinther, 1862, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 426. 

 PseuJorhombus vora.x (part), Giinther, 1862, toin, cit., p. 42g. 

 Chanopsiita dcntata, <;ill, 1864, Pror. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 21S. 



Fig. ^.i.—Vaniluhihyi Uthailis 



P-.nidvrh„mbui dciilatus. I.oodi', iSSo, rrnc. I'.S. N.it. Mus., 11, (iS^q), p. no; (.m,d.- and iiean 



1880, torn, cit., p. 123. 

 Paralichlhys dentatus, Jordan and Gilberl. 1S83, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus.. v, (1SS2), pp. 302, O17; 



Jordan and Gilbert, 18S3, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xvi, p. S22. 

 Paralichlhys lelhostigma, Jordan and Gilbert, 1S85, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vii, (1884), p. 237 ; Jordan 



and Goss, 188(1, Kep. U.S. Com. Fish., xiv, (1886), p. 247, pi. iii, ftg. 7 ; Jordan and F.vermann, 



iSr,8. Hull. U.S. Nat. Mus., .\lvii (3), p. 2630 ; Bean, i<i02, Ann. Kep. Forest Fish Game Comm. 



N.V.. VI. (noi), p. 4-3. 



liGGS, L.lRV.t AND YoUNG. 



Hildebrand and Cable 



Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., xlvi, (1930), p. 4t>4, hgs 



