UraclnpUuta. (Uiiithc 

 Latoplcryx, Weber, ig 



FLATFISHES (HFTEROSOMATA) 



Cenus 32. BKACHYPLEURA. 



lS6;, C:U. Fish., iv, p. 414 [Biachypleura lunurzi 

 , " Siboga "-E.xped., Fische, p. 422 [Brachyplcur, 



aiulia, (amther]. 

 xaiilhiislicla. Alcock]. 



Body elliptical, compressed. Eyes on the right side, separated by a very narrow 

 ridge : snout, jaws, interorbital space and upper parts of eye-balls not scaled ; na.sal 

 organ of blind side above fir.st ray of dorsal fin. Mouth large, the length of 

 the maxillary i or more than J that of head ; jaws and dentition about equally 

 developed on both sides : teeth pointed ; anterior teeth of upper jaw enlarged, 

 biserial : teeth in lower jaw biserial almost throughout, those of the outer series 

 larger ; head of vomer prominent, with a patch of conical teeth. Gill-membranes 

 more or less united below the throat ; gill-rakers rather long, slender, denticulated, 

 not numerous. Dorsal fin commencing on blind side, in front of eye ; some of the 

 anterior rays prolonged and filamentous in the male ; most of the rays simple, not 

 scaled ; no .sheath covering basal part of fin. Anal similar to dorsal ; tip of first 

 mterha-mal spine not projecting in front of fin. Pectoral fins equally developed 

 on both sides ; middle rays branched. Pelvic fins with 6 rays, short-based, that of 

 ocular side well in advance of that of blind side. Caudal fin with the middle rays 

 branched ; caudal peduncle very short. Scales rather large, deciduous, imbricated, 

 ctenoid or cycloid ; less than 35 scales in lateral line. Lateral line with a distinct 

 curve above the pectoral fin ; no supratemporal branch. Vent nearly median. 



.\ smgle species from the Indo-l'acific. 



BKACHYPLEURA NOV^-ZEELANDI/E, Gunther. 



Jiyplnim iiovu--:ceIan 

 " Ch.illenger ", p. 41 

 Rec. Ind. Mus., .x.xix 

 and Beaufort, 1929, 



Her. Gunther, 1802, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 419: Giinther, 1 

 ; I'hiUipps, 1927, N.Z. Mar. Dept., Fish Bull., i, p. 2; 

 p. 43, fig. 12 ; Fowler, 1928, Mem. B. P. Bishop Mus. 

 rish. Indo-Austral. Arch., v, p. 145, fig. 37. 



,pl.x 



8K0, Shore Fishe 



lirachypleura xanlhosHcta, Alcock, i88g, J, Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Iviii (2), p. 281 



1896, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Ixv {2), p. 327 ; Alcock, 1898, lUust. Zool. " Inve 

 pi. .\xii, fig. 2 ; Regan, 1908, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., xii, p. 232 ; Je; 

 Ind. Mus., ill, p. 27 ; Borodin, 1930, Bull. Vanderbilt Mar. Mus., i (2), p. 46. 



laiupleiyx xaiilhuslulu. Weber, 191 5, " Siboga "-Exped., Fisrhe, p. 423- 



, p. 43 ; Weber 



".fig. 

 ;tigato 



1-ir,. 2So—Brachyplcu 



:ccl,>mlur. 0" B..M. (N.H,)55. 

 1927- I.I'. 73- ■ I. 



