PLEURONECTIN^ 



3. LIOPSETTA PINNIFASCIATA ([Kner] Steindachner and Kner). 



PUuronectes pinnifascialus, (Kner) Steindachner and Kner, 1870, SitzBer. Akad. Wiss. W 



Abt. I, p. 422, pi. i, fig. I. 

 Pseudopleuroncctcs pinnifasciatu 



Jordan and Evermann, iSgi 

 l.iopsetta pinnifasciaia, Schmidt 



Proc. U.S. Nat. .Mus., xxxi 

 i(l),p. 33" ; Hubbs, 



1930, Bull. Pac. Sci. Fish. Inst., v, p. 408. 



Jordan and Goss, 1889, Rep. U.S. Com. Fish., xiv, (1886), p. 290 ; 

 Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlvii (3), p. 2647. 



:904, Pise. Mar. Orient., p. 245, fig. 21 ; Jordan and Starks, 1906, 



p. 217; Jordan, Tanaka and Snyder, 1913, J. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, 



5, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlviii, p. 487 ; Soldatov and Lindberg, 



Fig. 26g.—Uopsetla pinnifasciaia. B.M. (X.H.) 1924.7.26.3 



p., lower pharyngeals. 



Very close to /.. glacialis, but depth of body 2| in the length ; postocular ridge 

 not quite so prominent, the protuberances less marked ; teeth of lower pharyngeals 

 rather more flattened. Dorsal 55-57 ; anal 39-40. Pectoral of ocular side with 

 12 rays (5 or 6 branched), length ij to ij in that of head. Brownish, with vague 

 dusky markings ; dorsal and anal fins each with 6 or 7 blackish vertical bars ; some 

 horizontal elongate blotches on caudal. 



Type. — Vienna Museum. 



Distribution. — Okhotsk Sea ; northern Japan. 



Specimens Examined' : 



1 (260 mm.), Imperator Bay. Popov. 



I (178 ,, ). Mouth of R. Amur. Berg. 



4. LIOPSETTA PUTNAMI (Gill). 

 [Eel-back Flounder.] 



Platessa glabra {non Rathke), Storer, 1844-5, Proc. Boston Soc. N. H., i (2-3), p. 130 ; Storer, i86r, 

 Mem. Amer. Acad., n.s., viii,p. 393, pi. xxxi, fig. i ; Putnam, 1875, Bull. Essex Inst., vi, (1874), 

 p. 12. 



Euchalarodus putnami, Gill, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., xvi, pp. 216, 222 ; Gill, 1873, Rep. 

 U.S. Com. Fish., i, (1871-2), p. 794 ; Goode and Bean, 1877, Amer. J. Sci. Arts, {3) xiv, p. 476. 



^ Both specimens are females. The larger is less smooth than the fen 

 ctenoid scales over the greater part of the body on both sides. 



ales of glacialis, and has 



