PLEUKONECTINiE 297 



Pomatopseiia dentata. Gill, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., xvi, p. 217. 



Hippoglossoides timandoides, Goode and Bean, 1879, .\mer. Journ. Sci. Arts, (3) xvii, p. 39. 



Hippoglossoides plalcssoides (part), CoUett, 1880, Norskc N'ordhavs.-Exped., Zool., Fiske, p. 144- 



Drepanopseila platessoides (part), Smitt,.i893, Scand. Fish., i, p. 421. 



Drcpanopsetta (Hippoglossoides) platessoides, LUtken. 1898, Danish Ingolf Exped., ii (i), p. 19- 



Hippoglossoides (Hippoglossoides) platessoides, Hubbs, 1918, Annot. Zool. Japon., ix, p. 373. 



Eggs, Larx'.e anu Youn'G. 

 Huntsman, 191S, Bull. Biol. Board Canada, No. i, p. 14, figs. 



Principal characters those of the species. Depth of body 2J to 2| in the length. 

 Maxillary extending about to below middle of eye, length 2f to nearly 3 in that of 

 head ; lower jaw 2-^ to 2 J in head. Scales generally rather smoother than in the 

 European subspecies ; 90 to 97 in lateral line, 41 to 43 between lateral line and middle 

 of back. Dorsal (80) 86-94. Anal 64-73 (75). 



Type. — Zoological Museum, Copenhagen. 



Distribution. — Greenland'; Atlantic coast of North America, southwards to 

 Cape Cod. 



Specimens Ex.\mined : 



South of Nova Scotia, 83 fms. " Challenger." 



Halifax, Nova Scotia. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



Chebucktoe Head, Nova Scotia. ,, 



Massachusetts Bay. ,, 



Salem, Mass. Mus. Corap. Zool. 



New York Market. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



Said to attain to a length of 20 to 24 inches, and a weight of 2 to 5 pounds. 



lb. HIPPOGLOSSOIDES PLATESSOIDES LIMANDOIDES (Bloch). 



[Long Rough Dab ; Rough Dab.] 



Pleuronecles linguatula (non Linnaeus), Miiller, 1776, Zool. Danica; prodr. Anim., p. 45, No. 377. 

 Pleuronecles limandoides, Bloch, 1787, Nat. ausl. Fische, iii, p. 24. pl- clxxxvi ; Lacepede, 1802, 



Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, p. 635 ; Shaw, 1803, Gen. Zool., iv {2), p. 300 ; Quensel, 1806, Vet. Akad. 



Hand)., xxvii, pp. 54, 222 ; Nilsson, 1832, Prodr. Ichth. Scand., p. 57 ; Nilsson, 1855, Skand. 



Faun., ed. 2, Fiskar, p. 629. 

 Hippoglossus limandoides, Cuvier, 1817, R. Anim.,ii, p. 221. 



Pleuronecles limandanus, Parnell, 1835, Edinburgh New Phil. Journ., xix, p. 210. 

 Platessa limandoides, Jenyns, 1835, Man. Brit. Vert., p. 459 ; Yarrell, 1836, Brit. Fish., ed. I, ii, 



p. 224, fig. ; Parnell, 1838, Mem. Werner Soc, vii, p. 368, pl. xxxviii ; Yarrell, 1841, Brit. 



Fish., ed. 2, ii, p. 312, fig. ; Kroyer, 1843-5, Danmarks Fisk.,ii, p. 358, fig. ; Yarrell, 1859, 



Brit. Fish., ed. 3, i, p. 625, fig. ; Malmgren, 1864, Arch. Naturgesch., xxx (i), p. 296. 

 Hippoglossoides limanda, Gottsche, 1835, Arch. Naturgesch., i (2), p. 168. 

 Limanda limandoides, Bonaparte, 1846, Cat. metod. Pesci Europ., p. 48. 

 Hippoglossoides limandoides, Gunther, 1862, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 405 ; Collett, 1875, Vid.-Selsk. Forh., 



(1874), Till. p. 136 ; Malm, 1877, Goteborgs Bohus. Fauna, p. 509 ; Day, 1880-4, Fish. Britain, 



ii, p. 9, pl. xcv. 

 Drepanopseila platessoides, Malmgren, 1865, Ofvers. K. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Forh., (1864), p. 525; 



Lonnberg. 1899, Vet. Akad. Handl., xxiv (4), No. 9, p. 20 ; Pietschmann, 1909, Ann. naturh. 



Mus. Wien, xxii, (1907-8), p. 301 : Schnakenbeck, 1925, Tier. Nord. Ostsec, L.ii, xii (i), p. 4, 



fig. 2 ; Knipovich, 1926, Trans. Inst. Sci. Explor. North, xxvii, p. 138, fig. 102 ; Saemundsson, 



1927, Rit. Visind. Isl.,ii, p. 35 ; Schnakenbeck, 1930, in Joubin, Faun. Ichth. Atlant. Nord, 



iv, fig. 



^ I have recently received a paper from Dr. Pietschmann (1932), in which a number of 

 examples from Greenland are described. These appear to belong to this subspecies, but the author 

 does not give any scale counts. 



