PLEURONECTIN^ 



Said to attain to a length of about 3 feet. The occurrence of the Plaice in the Adriatic 

 is difficult to credit and requires confirmation. In 1878. Trois found two specimens 

 in the fish-market at Venice, and the only other record of the species being found 

 in this region is the statement by Jordan and Goss (1889) that they had examined 

 examples from Trieste (Coll. Salmin). One of these specimens has been sent to the 

 British Museum by the Museum of Comparative Zoology, through the courtesy of 

 Prof. T. Barbour, and proves to be a typical Pleuronectes platessa. 



^ The following papers describe abnormalities of the Plaice : Malm, 1882, Goteborgs. Mus. Arsskr., 

 (1881), p. 23 ; Cunningham and McMunn, :894, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc, b. clxxxiv, pp. 802, 804 ; 

 Bateson, 1894, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 249 ; Lonnberg, 1894, Overs. Vet.-.Akad. Forh., li, p. 581 ; 

 Cunningham, 1895, J. Mar. Biol. .Ass., (2) iii, p. 271 ; Gadeau de Kerville, 1895, Bull. Soc. zool. 

 Fr., XX, p. 155 ; Mcintosh, 1895, Rep. Fish. Board Scotland, xiii (iii), (1894), p. 234 ; Mcintosh, 1902, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) ix, p. 291; (7) x, p. 252; Boulenger, 1908, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 161, figs; 

 Elmhurst, 1911, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., p. 77; Franz, 1925, Biol. Zentralbl., xli\-, p. 675, figs.; 

 Demel, 1927, Kosmos Lemburg, li, p. 228, figs. 



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