COMMON DAB. 



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SUBBRACIIIAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



PLEURONECTID^. 



COMMON DAB. 



SALTIE, AND SALT-WATER FLEUK, Edinburgh. 



Platessa limanda, Dab, Flem. Brit. An. p. 198, sp. 105. 



„ ,, La Limande, Cuvier, Kegne An. t. ii. pp. 339 Sc 340. 



Passer a sper, Dab, Willughby, p. 97, F. 4. 



Pleuronectes limanda, hmyjEVs. Bloch, pt. ii. pi. 46. 



,, „ Dab, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 308. 



Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 44. 



The Dab is common to all the sandy parts of the coast, 

 and is usually caught along with Plaice and Flounder ; but 

 is immediately distinguished from either by its more uni- 

 form and lighter brown colour, its more curved lateral line, 

 and the roughness of the scaly surface, from which latter 

 circumstance it has been called in Latin, limanda, from lima, 

 a file. Dr. Neill reports it as common in the market of 

 Edinburgh, where it is called Saltie, or Salt-water Fleuk. 

 I have received it from Berwick, and it is taken at Yar- 

 mouth. It is very common in the London market, and 

 Colonel Montagu says it is caught along the Devonshire 

 coast with the seine-net ; many are also taken by trawling. 



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