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FLATFISHES (HETEROSOMATA) 



Type. — Not traced. 

 Distribution. — North Atlantic, 

 Specimens Examined : 



uthwards to Cape Co<i and the Bay of Biscay.' 



I (400 mm.). 

 I (300 ,, ). 



1 (480 ,. ). stuffed. 

 3 (335-410 [iim.). 



2 {340,420 .. ). 

 I (190 mm.}. 



I (130 ,, ). 

 I {430 >. )• 

 5 (175-350 mm.). 

 I (22J mm.). 

 8 (90-360 mm.). 

 - (225, 375 mm.). 

 I (356 mm.). 



5 (i'o-295 mm.). 



1 (350 mm.), stuffed. 



2 (176, 180 mm.). 

 I (430 mm.). 



3 (265-475 mm.), skms. 

 -: (330, 450 ,. ). .. 



I (270 mm.), skins. 



3 (295-490 mm.), skins. 



I (380 mm.), skins. 



I (220 ,, ). 



I (285 ,. ). 



I (270 ,. ). 



Chrislianiaiiord. 

 Westray Sands, Orkney. 

 Firth of Forth. 



Off Skate Isd., Loch Fvne, lou 

 Lower Loch Fyne, 80 fms. 

 Loch Houn, 70 fins. 

 Loch Canon, 60 fms. 

 Kilbrennan Sound, 60-70 fms. 

 46 fms. 

 ,, 46 fms. 



tollett. 

 Cowan. 



. fms 



I3etv 



Sanda 



24 fms. 

 Loch Strivan, 40 fins. 

 Ireland. 



02S.W. Ireland. 130 fn 

 ■^'armouth. 



nth. 



Ply 



S. Devon. 



Bri,\bam. 



British coast. 



Gloucester, Ma 

 37' 10' 15' N., 

 31' 53' N'., 70' 



17- W. 



Attains to a length of 12 to 18 inches. 



Lonnberg (1894, Overs. Vet.-Akad. Forh., li, p. 582) describes 

 Cattegat, which he believes to be a hybrid Pleurouecles plalessa 

 cynoglossus. 



2. GLYPTOCEPHALUS STELLERI (Schmidt). 

 LSs. Geogr. Soc, ; 



Microstomus sUlUri, [Schmidt, 1903, Bull. Imp 



Schmidt, 1904, Pisc. Mar. Orient., p. 247. 

 Glyplocephalus, Jordan and Starks, 1906, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxxi, p. 226. 

 Gtyplocephalus ostroumowi, Pavlenko, 1910, Trudui Obshch. Kazan, xlii, p. 59, pi 



1915, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlviu, p. 491 ; Jordan and Hubbs, 1925, Mem 



Thompson. 

 Brunner. 

 Patterson. 

 Yarrell. 



Par'nell Coll. 

 Yarrell. 

 Gronow Coll. 

 U.S. Nat. Mu: 



. fish from the 

 Glyplocephalus 



(5), (1902), p. 522] ; 



li, tig. 13 ; Hubbs, 

 Carnegie Mus., x. 



p. 301. 

 Glyptocephalu 

 Mu5.,xli; 

 p. 332. 



sa$i£, Snyder, 

 p. 440,pl.xlix, 



Proc. U.S. N; 

 ; Jordan, Tac 



t. Mus., xl, p. 54S ; Snvder, 1912, Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 akaand Snyder, 191 3, J. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, xxxiii (i). 



p. 67 [in Japanese] ; 



Microstomus hireguro, Tanaka, 1916, Dobuts. Zasshi (Zool. Mag.), 



Tanaka, 1917, Fish. Japan, xxv, p. 447, pi. cxxii, tig. 351. 

 Glyptocephaius kitaham (part), Schmidt, 1929, C. R. Acad. Sci. Russ., p. 367. 

 Glyptocepkalui oitroumovi. Soldatov and Lindberg, 1930, Bull. Pac. Sci. Fish. Inst., v. p. 414. 

 Glyplocephalus stcUeri, Hubbs, 1932, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Umv. .Mich., 249, p. 7. 



Close to G. cynoglossus. Depth of body 2j to 3^ in the length, length of head 

 4J to 4J. Diameter of eye 3J to 4 in length of head ; interorbital ridge high, narrow, 

 apparently not scaled. Maxillary extending to a little beyond anterior edge of eye, 

 length on ocular side 45 to nearly 5, on blind side 3J to 4 in that of head. Teeth 



compressed, incisor-Iike, forming a continuous cutting edge ; dental formula -Z-lt — ° 



13 + 20- 

 Scales all cycloid ; about 115 (?) 



7 or 8 (10) giU-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. 



This species appears to be found in rather deeper water tlK 



been collected 



les appears to be found in rather deeper 1 

 at all depths from 10 to 730 fathoms. 



elated forms, but specimens have 



