430 JJKEl'-SKA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



TIh; typo specimens (Cat. No. 26102, U. S. N. M.) were taken by tlie Fish Hnwl; fioin 

 station 875, in 39° 57' N. lat., 70° 57' 'MV W. Ion., at a depth of 120 fatlionis, and tioiii 

 station 876, in 39o 57' N. lat., 70° 56' W. Ion., at a deptli of 120 tatlioms. The Albatross 

 socured examples iiom station 2398, in 28° 45' N. lat., 86° 26' W. Ion., at a depth of 227 

 fathoms; from station 2309, in 28° 44' N. Lit., 86° 18' W. Ion., at a depth of 19(; fathoms; 

 from station 2143, in 9^ 30' N. lat., 76° 25' W. Ion., at a depth of 896 fathoms; from 

 station 2400, in 28° 41' N. lat., 86o 07' W. Ion., at a depth of 169 fathoms; from station 



2401, in 28° 38' 30" N. lat., 85o 52' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 142 fathoms; and from station 



2402, in 280 30' N. lat., 85° 33' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 111 fatlioms. The Jilake obtained 

 individuals from station XV, off St. Kitt's, in 208 fathoms, and station xxii, off St. Kitt's, 

 in 250 fathoms. 



GLYPTOCEPHALUS, Gottsche. 



iilyplocephalus, Gottsche, Archiv fiir Naturg., I, 1835, 156. — Bleekhr, Coiup. Reml. Acad. Sci. Amsterdam, 

 XIII. — Gill, Pioc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1873, 360. — Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S.Nat. Mus., i, 19. — Jor- 

 dan and Gilbert, Bull, xvi, U. S. Nat. Mus., 837. 



Dextral pleurouectoids with body elongate, greatly compressed. Head small and short, 

 with many sinuses and mucous cavities in skull, as well as on mandible and preopercle on 

 blind side. Mouth very small; teeth iu single series, moderate, incisor-like, equal, close 

 set; vomer and j»alatines toothless. Gill rakers short, weak. Lower jjharyngeals narrow, 

 with 1 or 2 rows of conical teeth. Lateral line simple, nearly straight; scales smooth, 

 small. Dorsal and anal fins elongate, with more thau 90 rays iu the dorsal aud more than 

 80 iu the anal; caudal rounded; an anal spine. 



GLYPTOCEPHALUS CYNOGLOSSUS, (Lixn.isus), Gill. (Figures 356 A, B.) 



Pleuronectes ociilis a dextris toliis ylaber, Artedi, Gen. 11, N. 3; Mus. Ichth. No. 39; Synou. 31, No. 3. 



Pkuronectes cijiuxjlomim, Lin.\.eus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, 1758, 269; ed. xii, 1766, 1,4.56. — GCntmer, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mu.s.. IV, 1862, 419; Cliallengcr Report, xxii, 1887, 166. — Day, Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 II, 30, pi. cm. 



Glyptoccphalns cijnoglossus, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil.i., 1873, 61. — Goode and Bkan, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., I, 19; Bull. Essex lust., xi, 1879, 6; Bull. Mus. Coiup. Zool., x, 1883, 195. — Jordan and Gil- 

 bert, loc. cit. — Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., in. 475. — Collett, Noiske Nord-Havs Exped., Fiske, 150; 

 Eorhandl. Videusk. Selsk. Christiauia, 1880, 82.— StrOm, Norsk. Vidensk. Selsk. Skrift., 1884, 39. 



I'latessa vynoglosaiis, Moreau, Hist. Nat. Poiss. France, ill, 296. 



Pleuronectes pola, L.vcKPfcDB, Hist. Nat. Poiss. (Suites a Buli'ou), 1819, IV, 401. 



Platessa poJa, Cuvier. — Parnell, Nat. Hist. Fish. Frith of Forth, 1838, 210, pi. x.vxviu. — Yarrbll, Hist. 

 Brit. Fish., 1841, II, 315. — Couch, Fishes British Islands, iii, 1864, 190. 



Pleuronectes saxicola, Faber, Isis, 1828, 877. 



Ghjploccphalus saxicola, Gottscub, loc. cit. 



Pleuronectes ■nigrumanna, NiLSSOX, Prodr. Ichth. Scand., 1832, 55. 



Platcma elonyata, Yarrell, op. cit. 318.^Gunther, op. cit. 450. — CoccH, op. cit. 193. 



Olyptoccphalus clongatus, Gill, op. cit. 362. 



Glyptoccphalns aeadianus, Gill, oj). cit. 361, aud iu B.vikd's Keport on Fisheries of .South Coast of New Eng- 

 land, 1873, 794. 



A Oli/ptoccpJialus, having the height of body 3 times (more or less) iu its own length; the 

 length of the head about 5^ times. Scales small; head scaly, except on snout and ridge 

 between the eyes. Lateral line straight. Snout shorter than diameter of orbit, which is 

 one- fourth of length of liead. Jaws suberpial in front, the maxillary shorter than the eye. 

 Upper jaw with truncated incisor-like teeth on the bhud side, iu a close-set series of about 

 20. Eyes separated by a sharp ridge, the lower somewhat in advance. Origin of dorsal 

 fin about middle of eye, its distance from caudal somewhat less than half depth of caudal 

 ])cduiicle. ]\liddle dorsal rays longest, more than half as long as liead; pectoral half as 

 long as head. 



RadiaHbrmula: D. 102—120; A. 87—102; L. lat. 125; Vert. 58. 



Color, grayish-brown; membranes of the fins with dark spots; i)ectoral of the colored 

 side dark. 



The pole-flouuder is a well-known cold-water tisli of Europe. It was obtained by Strom 



