POLK 



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SUBBRACHIAL 

 MALACOPTERYCn. 



pleurokfa:tidm. 



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THE POLE, OR CRAIG FLUKE. 



Platessa Pola, La Pole, Cuvier, Regne An. t. iii. p. 339. 



,, ,, T/ie Po/e, .1 EN YNs, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 458, sp. 145. 



,, „ Craig Fltike, Parnell, Edinb. Phil. Journ. July 1835, p. 210. 



,, ,, La Vraie Limatidelle, Duhamei., sect, ix.pl, 6, figs. 3 & 4. 



Pleunmectes Pola, La Pole, Lacepede, vol. iv. p. 368. New 8vo. Edition, 

 vol. X. p. 74. 



This second addition to the British Fishes in the genus 

 Platessa is still more rare on our coast than the PL liman- 

 do'ides last describe^l. In the month of May 1833 I ob- 

 served a specimen twelve inches long in the shop of Mr. 

 Groves of Bond-street ; and on pointing out the differences 

 between this and other Flatfishes by comparison with several 

 species among which it was placed for sale, and mentioning 

 its rarity, Mr. Groves immediately sent it to the Zoological 

 Society for preservation, observing that he had not noticed 

 the difference, and did not recollect that he had ever seen 

 that species before. From this specimen the woodcut was 

 executed. In May 1835, Dr. Parnell vcrv kindlv sent 



