5. RHOMBUS. 407 



black or blue dots, edged with light-blue. Vertical fins with large 

 brown spots. 

 Chinese Seas. 



a-h. Adult and half-grown : stuffed. China. Presented by J. 



Reeves, Esq. 

 c. Fine specimen. From the Haslar Collection. 



5. RHOMBUS* 



Rhombus, sp., Klein, Pise. Miss. iv. p. 34. 



Rhombus et Zeugopterus, Gottsche in Wiegm. Arch. 1835, pp. 172, 178. 



Eyes on the left side. Mouth wide, the length of the maxillary 

 being more than one-third of that of the head. Each jaw with a 

 narrow band of villiform teeth, without canines ; vomeiine teeth ; 

 none on the palatines. The dorsal fin commences on the snout ; 

 nearly all the dorsal and anal rays branched. Scales none or small. 

 Gill-membranes scarcely united at the throat ; gill-rakers well 

 developed, lanceolate. Branchiostegals seven. 



Mediterranean ; North Atlantic. 



This genus may be subdivided into three smaller groups : — 



1. Ventral free from anal ; scales none, or small and cycloid : Rhombus, 



Gottsche, p. 407. 



2. Ventral free* from anal ; scales small and ciliated : Lepidorhoinhus, 



m., p. 411. 



3. Ventrals united with anal : Zeugopterus, Gottsche, p. 413. 



1. Ventral free from anal; scales none, or small and cycl'^''* 



1. Rhombus maximus. 



The Turbot. Stein-butt. 



"^riTTa, Aristot. iv. c. 11, v. c. 9, ix. c. 37; JElian, iv. c. 3; Oppian, i. p. 5. 

 Rhombus, Plin. ix. c. 15, 20 & 42 ; Bellon. De Aquat. p. 139. 

 Rhombus aculeatus, Rondel, xi. c. 2. p. 310 ; Gesner, Aquat. iv. pp. (561 



& 670 ; Sehonev. Ichth. p. 60 ; Aldrov. ii. c. 48. p. 248 ; Jonsfon, i. c.8. 



art. 2. punct. 2. p. 66. tab. 22. fig. 12 ; Willughby, p. 93. tab. F. 8. 



fig. 3 ; Ray, p. 32 ; Klein, Pise. Miss. iv. p. 34. rio. 1. tab. 8. fig. 1 



& tab. 9. fig. 1. 

 Rhombus, sp., no. 2, Klein, I. c. p. 35. tab. 8. fig. 2. 

 Rhombus maximus. Will. p. 94. tab. F. 2 ; Pay, p. 31. 

 Pleuronectes, sp., Artedi, Synon. p. 32. no. 7, and Genera, p. 18. no. 9 ; 



Gronov. Zoophyl. no. 254, and Mus. ii. p. 10. no. 159. 

 Pleuronectes maximus, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 459 ; Brilnn. Ichth. Mass. 



p. 35 ; Bl. Fische Beuisclil. ii. p. 53. tab. 49 ; Bl. Schn. p. 153 ^ 



Quenselin Vet. Akad. Handl. 180G, p. 203; Ptsso, Ichth. Nice, p. 314; 



Faber in Isis, 1828, p. 892 ; Donov. Brit. Fish, ii. pi. 46 ; Fkstr. 



* 1. Rhombus torosus, Rathke, Faun. Krym, p. .349. — Sea of Azof. 



2. cristatu8, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 88. — Madeira. 



3. candidissimuB, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii. p. 253. fig. 34. — Mediterranean. 



