113. PLEUEONECTID^ PARALICHTHYS. 823 



ocellaris Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1864, 218: Pleuroncctes melanogasfer Mitchill, 

 Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y. (doubled example): Platessa ohlonqa Dekay, New 

 York Fauna, Fish. 1842, 29D, pi. 48, f. 156, not Plcuronectes oblomjuH Mitcli. : rseiido- 

 rhomhua ohloinjuH Giinther, iv, 426: rsetidorhombtts dentatus Goode &. Beau, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. 187'J, 123.) 



1267. P. albigutta J. & G. 



Dark olive, mottled with dusky, and marked by numerous more or 

 less distinct pale spots, which are sometimes obsolete. Body moder- 

 ately elongate, elliptical; mouth large, the maxillary reaching past 

 lower eye, its length half head; teeth rather strong, slender, about 7 

 on each side of lower jaw; 3 or 4 moderate canines in front of upi)er 

 jaw; the lateral teeth being minute, close-set; interorbital space nar- 

 row, scaled posteriorly, the upper ridge prominent behind upper orbit; 

 eye of in head. Gill rakers broad, the longest 2^ in eye; about 10 be- 

 low angle. Fins low; anterior rays of dorsal not elevated nor exserted; 

 the longest rays behind the middle, 2f in head; caudal rounded, 1^ iu 

 in head. Scales moderate, cycloid. Lateral line with a high curve, its 

 length 3^ in straight part. Head ^^, depth 2f. D. 77 (75 to 80); A. 

 00 (50 to 01) ; Lat. 1. 90 (pores}. South Atlantic and Gulf coast, rather 

 coinmod; readily distinguished from P. dentatns, by the smaller num- 

 ber of fin rays. 



(Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882.) 



126§. P. sqiiamileBBtus J. & G. 



Brownish; body and fins spotted with darker; caudal mottled with 

 white; pectorals banded, with dark spots. Body deep, strongly com- 

 pressed; caudal peduncle very short. Head wide, the eyes large, wide 

 apart. Mouth very large, oblique, the broad maxillary reaching well 

 beyond pupil, its length more tlian half the head. Lower jaw project- 

 ing; teeth few, unequal, in a single row, about 8 in each jaw canine- 

 like, the two in front of lower jaw longest; lateral teeth of upper jaw 

 minute. Interorbital space flat, scaly, nearly as broad as eye. Scales 

 very small, smooth, adherent ; curve of lateral line 4J in straight 

 part. Gill-rakers short, 3 -j- 9 in number, triangular, roughly toothed, 

 little higher than wide, the longest nearly half eye. Dorsal beginning 

 over front of eye, the anterior rays 4i in head; pectoral short, shorter 

 than maxillary. Anal spine obsolete. Caudal double-rounded. Head 

 3| ; depth 2. D. 78; A. 59; Lat. 1. 123 (pores). West coast of Florida 

 to South Carolina. 



(Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882.) 



