202 



FLATFISHES (HETEROSOArATA) 



Hip/ioglossiis st-fU-itlriouuhs. Thou. 1S31, In Erscli ,ind (Irubor, Allg. Eiicy., (.') \ 

 Hippoglossus maximiis. Ciotlselie, 183^, Arch, Naturgesch., 1(2), p. 164 ; Krtivor 



I-'iske, li, p. 381 ; Nilsson, 1855, Skand. Faun., ed. 2, Fiskar, p. b3i. 

 fiippoi^loasus gt^rts, Swainson, 1839, X. H. Fishes etc., ii, p, 302, 

 - Htppi>i;lot;sus ponticus, Bonaparte, 1846, Cat. metod. Fesci Europ., p. 47.^ 

 Hippoglnasus amcncanus. Gill, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., xvi, p. zio. 

 Hippnglossm linnei. Malm, 187-, Goteborgs Bohus. Fauna, p. 508. 

 Hippaithissus nitgaris (p.irt), Jordan and Gilbert, 1882, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xvi 



1884, Nat. Hist, .\quat. .-Vnim. (Fisheries Fish. Indust. U..S., i), p. 189, pi. I 



Anier. Nat., xix, p. 953. 

 Hippnglossus hippoghssu's (p.irt), Jordan, 1887, Rep. U.S. Com. Fish., xi 



and Goss, 1889, Rep. U.S. Com. Fish., xiv, (1886), p. 237, pi. i, lig. 



1898, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlvii(3), p. 2611. 

 Hippoglmsiis hippoglossiis. Bean, 1902, Ann. Rep. Forest Fish Game ( 



472 ; Collett, 1903, Vid.-Selsk. Forh., (1902), p. 78 ; Evermann 



Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., xxvi, (1906), p. 351, fig. 133; Pietschmann 



Wicn, xxii, (1907-8), p. 304 ; Danois, 1913, Ann. Inst 



Belloc, 1925, Rapp. proc. -verb, explor. mer, xxxv, p. 50 



819 ; Goode, 

 Goode, 1885, 



(1885), p. 921 ; Jordan 

 Jordan and Evermann, 



im. N.V., vi, (1901), p. 

 id Goldsborough, 1907, 

 909, Ann. naturh. Mus. 



;eanogr. Paris, v (5), p. 99, fig. 171 ; 



Bigelow and Welsh, 1925, Bull. U.S. 



Fish., xl (i), (1924), p. 473, figs. 238-241; Knipovich, 1926, Trans. Inst. Sci. Explo 

 Corth, xxvii.p. 139 ; Nichols and Breder. 1927, Zoologica N.Y., ix, p. 175, fig. ; Chabanaud, 

 930. Bull. Mus. Hist. nat. Paris, (2) ii, p. 627. 



Vor 



Mcintosh. 1S92. Rep. Fish. Board Scotland, x, (1891), p. 285, pi. xvi, figs. 11-13, 22 ; Mcintosh, 

 1S93, Rep. Fish. Board Scotland, xi, (1892), p. 244 ; Petersen, 1894, Rep. Danish Biol. Stat., 

 IV, (1893), p. 130, pi. ii, fig. 2r (?) ; Cunningham. 1896, N.H. Market. Mar. Fish., p. 242: 

 .Mcintosh and Masterinan, 1897, Brit. Mar. Food-fish., p. 315, figs.; Petersen, 1904, Medd. 

 Komm. Havundersog. Kjob., Ser. Fisk., i (i), p. 3 ; Schmidt, 1904, torn, cit., (3), p. 5, pi. i, 

 figs. 5-12; Ehrenbaum, 1905, in Brandt and Apstein, Nordisches Plankton, I. Eier Larv. Fisch. 

 (I), p. 177, fig. 72 : Jespersen, 1917, Medd. Komm. Havundersog. Kjob., v(5),p. 28; Nord- 

 .gSrd, 1929, K. Norske Vid. Selsk. Forh. Trondhjem, i, (i92fi-S), p. 22. 



Depth of body 2.5 to 2J in the length, length of head 3I to 4J. Snout (in adults) 

 longer than eye, diameter of which is 5 to 7 in length of head and a little greater^ than 

 to nearly three times (young) the interorbital width ; anterior margins of eyes level 

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



" 395. H. p,mtu 

 The interorbital \ 



Bp. [PUur 



tries hippoglossus. Pall). M. i 

 oader in very large specimens. 



