36 PLEURONECTID-E. 



SUBBliACHIAL 



MALACOPTERYGIl. PLEURONECTID^. 



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THE SOLENETTE, 



OR LITTLE SOLE. 



Mnnnchirus tinguatulus, CuviEn, Reg. An. t. ii. p. 343. 



Solea parva sive lingvla, Rondi letius, p. 324. 



La petite Sole, ,, French Edit. Lyons, p. 260. 



Solea parva sive lingida Rondeletil, Willougiiby, p. 102, F. 8, fig. 1. 



Pleuronectes liiigula, Linn, Syst. Nat. p. 457, sp. 10. 



Monochiriis minutus, Parnei.i,, Mag. Zool. and Bot. vol. i. p. 527. 



At the time of -writing the description of the Variegated 

 Sole (British Fishes, vol. ii. page ^62), I had not seen a 

 specimen of the true Solea parva sive lingiila of Rondeletius, 

 and now find that I have included two distinct species in the 

 synonymcs employed to designate the Variegated Sole. Tlic 

 Rev. L. Jenyns, in his Manual of British Vertebrate Ani- 

 mals, appears to have suspected that there was a fourth spe- 

 cies of Sole on our coast, since, at the conclusion of the de- 

 scription of his third species, he has observed, " further ob- 

 servation is necessary in order to decide whether, in this 

 instance, I have confounded two nearly allied species." 



In the published proceedings of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh for January 1837, Dr. Parnell has figured and 

 briefly described, under the name of Monochiriis minutus, a 



