SCOPHTHALMIN^ 



, (Cuvier) Storer, 1839, Rept. Ichth. Massach., p. 146 ; Giinther, 1862, Cat. Fish., 



I.ophopsetta maculata. Gill, l8( 

 N. Amer.),p. 216; Gill, ii 

 1898, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mu 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., {1861), Suppl. (Cat. Fish. E. Coast 

 \, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., xvi, p. 220 ; Jordan and Evermann, 

 . {3), p. 2660, pi. ccclxxxii, fig. 938 ; Bean, 1902, Ann. Rep. 



Forest Fish Game Comm. N.Y., vi, (1901), p. 474; Huntsman 



1921, No. iii, p. 22 ; Bigelow and Welsh, 1925, Bull. U.S. Bur. 



iigs. 268-270 ; Nichols and Breder, 1927, Zoologica, ix, p. 181, fig. 



1928, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., xliii (i), p. 171. 

 Bothus maculatiis, Jordan and Gilbert, 18S2, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xv 

 Scophlhalmus aquosus, Norman, 1931, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (10) viii 



1922, Contr. Canad. Biol., 

 Fish., xl (I), (1924), p. 516, 

 ; Hildebrand and Schroeder, 



,p. 815. 

 p. 513. 



.^gassiz, 187^ 

 260, 270 



Eggs 

 Proc. .^mer. .^cad., xiv, p 



\Nr> Young. 

 Bigelow and Welsh, 



1925, torn, cit., p. 316. figs. 



V\o. zoS.—Scophthalmus aquosus. B.M. (N.H.) 79- 10.9.66. Xj. 



Body strongly compressed, nearly translucent in life. Depth of body i^ to i§ 

 in the length, length of head 3^ to 3|. Snout longer than eye, diameter of which is 

 4J to nearly 6 in length of head and greater than interorbital width ; anterior margins 

 of eyes level or lower a little in advance of upper, which is close to edge of head. 

 Maxillary extending to below middle or posterior part of eye, length about 2j- in that 

 of head : a bony tubercle at anterior end of maxillary on ocular side. 22 to 26 gill- 

 rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Scales all cycloid, loosely imbricated ; 90 to 

 95 in lateral line. Dorsal 65-71 ; anterior rays somewhat higher than those which 

 follow, branched, free from membrane for the greater part of their length. Anal 

 50-55. Pectoral of ocular side with 11 rays, length ij to i| in that of head. First 

 ray of right pelvic opposite third of left. Caudal rather long, rounded or obtusely 

 pointed. Vertebrae 11 + 25. Brownish, marbled with paler, and with a number 

 of small, dark spots irregularly arranged ; median tins with larger brown spots and 

 blotches. 



Type. — Not traced. 



Distribution. — Atlantic coast of the United States, from Casco Bay to South 

 Carolina. 



