PLEURONECTIN^ 



383 



at bases of dorsal and anal fins (var. glaber), sometimes also present on head and 

 along region of lateral line (var. lusciis) ; blind side nearly entirely smooth ; usually a 

 few tubercles or ctenoid scales on middle rays of dorsal and anal fins. Dorsal 57-65. 

 Anal 42-46. Length of pectoral i| to i| in that of head. Caudal peduncle as long 

 as deep or deeper than long. Greyish or brownish, with or without darker blotches 

 or other markings ; sometimes some round dark spots edged with white on body ; 

 fins generally with darker spots or blotches ; blind side often with irregular dark spots. 



Fig. 274. — Platichthys fiesus luscus. B.M. (N.H.) 1930.5.9. 14. 

 p., lower pharyngeals. 



Type. — Zoologisches Museum der Universitat, Berlin (?) 

 Distribution. — Sea of Marmora ; Black Sea. 

 Specimens Examined : 



2 {290, 345 mm 



3 {265-280 ,, 

 3 (105-140 ,, 

 3 (128-218 „ 



2 (240, 245 ,, 



3 (35-40 mm.). 

 I ("15 ,, )■ 



Constantinople. 



Bosphorus. 



Black Sea. 



L. Karadja, Crimea. 



Sebastopol. 



Dickson. 

 MiUingen. 

 Spratt. 

 Popov. 



2. PLATICHTHYS STELLATUS (PaUas). 



PUuronectes stellatus, Pallas, 1787, Nova Acta Ac. Sci. Petrop., i, (1783), p. 347, pi. ix, tig. i ; PaUas, 

 1814, Zoographia, iii, p. 416 ; Giinther, 1862. Cat. Fish., iv, p. 443 ; Steindachner and Kner, 

 1870, SitzBer. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixi (i), p. 421 ; Jordan and Gilbert, 1881, Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus., iii, (1880), p. 453; Jordan and Gilbert, 1882, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., iv, (1S81), p. 68 ; 

 Jordan and Gilbert, 1883, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xvi, p. 835 ; Jordan, 1884, Nat. Hist. Aquat. 

 Anim.( Fisheries Fish. Indust. U.S., i), p. 184, pi. xlvi; Otaki, 1897, Journ. Fish. Bur. Tokyo, 

 vi (i), p. 7, pi. vi, fig. 6 ; Schmidt, 1904, Pise. Mar. Orient., p. 240. 



Platessa stellata, De Kay, 1842, N.H. New York, (Fish.), p. 301 ; Richardson, 1852, Zool. Voy. 

 " Herald ", Fish., p. 164, pi. xxxii. 



