PLEURONECTIN.E 289 



lower part of anterior arch ; lower pharyngeals each with a single row of unequal 

 teeth. Dorsal fin commencing behind or above posterior part of eye. Pectoral fins 

 nearly equally developed on both sides of body. Scales very small, adherent, cycloid 

 on both sides of body. Vertebrae 62. Head and body (in adults) coloured on bhnd 

 side. 



One or two species from the Arctic parts of the Atlantic and from Japan. 



The following species from Japan has been briefly described in Japanese, without 

 an abstract in English or other European language : 



Reinhardtius oleosus, Tanaka, 1918, Dobuts. Zasshi (' Zool. Mag.'), xxx, p. 226. 



I. REINHARDTIUS HIPPOGLOSSOIDES (Walbaum). 



[Greenland Halibut ; Lesser Halibut.] 



Plcuronectes cynoglossus {non Linnaeus), Fabricius, 1780, Fauna Greenland, p. 163. 

 PUuronectes hippoglossoides, Walbaum, 1792, Artedi Ichth., (3), ed. 2, p. 115. 

 Plcuronectes pinguis, Fabricius, 1824, Afbandl. K. Danske Vid. Selsk., i, p. 40. 



Fig. 216. — Rcinhardtiits hippoglo. 



B.JI. (N.H.) 1926. 2. 17. 1. X }. 



Hippoglossus pinguts, Reinhardt, 1838, Afhandl. K. Danske Vid. Selsk., vii, p. 116 ; Kroyer, 1850 (?), 

 in Fabvre, Voy. Scand. Lapon., Zool., pi. xxii ; Esmark, i86g, Forh. Skand. Naturf., M. x, 

 (1868), p. 526; Collett, 1S75, Vid. -Selsk. Forh., (1874), TiU. p. 133; Lutken, 1875, in 

 Jones, Man. Nat. Hist. Greenland, vii, p. 120 ; Collett, 1880, Vid. -Selsk. Forh., (1879), p. 74; 

 Giinther, 1S87, Deep-Sea Fishes " Challenger", p. 161. 



Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, Gill, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., Suppl. (Cat. Fish. E. Coast 

 N. Amer.), p. 50 ; Gill, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., xvi, p. 218 ; Jordan and Evermann, 

 1898, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlvii (3), p. 2611 ; Collett, 1903, Vid. -Selsk. Forh., (1902), p. 82 ; 

 1924, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., {9), xiii, p. 539; Bigelow and Welsh, 1925, Bull. U.S. 



481 



;. 242 ; Knipovich, 1926, Trans. Inst. Sci. Explo 

 Versl. .\kad. Wet. Amsterdam, xiii, p. 426 ; Steenstrup, 



Bur. Fish., xl (i), (1924), 



xxvii, p. 140, fig. 104. 

 Platysomatichthys pinguis, Bleeker, 18' 



1863, Overs. D. Vid.-Selsk. Forh., 

 Hippoglossus grocnlandicus, Giinther, 1862, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 404. 

 Platysomatichthys hippoglossoides, Goode and Bean, 1879, Bull. Essex Inst., xi, p. 7 ; Collett, 1880, 



Norske Nordhavs-Exped., Zool., Fiske, p. 142 ; Jordan and Gilbert, 1883, Bull. U.S. Nat. 



Mus., xvi, p. 819 ; Goode, 1884, Nat. Hist. .-Vquat. Anim. (Fisheries Fish. Indust. U.S., i), p. 



197, pi. Ivi ; Collett, 1885, Nyt Mag. Naturv. Christiania, xxix, p. 98 ; Jordan and Goss, 1889, 



Rep. U.S. Coin. Fish., xiv, (1886), p. 237, pi. i, tig. 2 ; Smitt, 1893, Scand. Fish., i, p. 417, fig. 



112 ; Goode and Bean, 1895, Ocean. Ichth., p. 435, pi. cv, fig. 364 ; Grieg, 1898, Bergens Mus. 



.■\arb., No. iii, p. 14. 



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