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SUBBRACHIAL 

 MALACOPTERrCIL 



PLEURONECTIDM. 



MULLER^S TOPKNOT. 



Rhombus hirtns, Muller^s Topknot, YARnELL. 



Pleuronectes hirtus. Miller, Zool. Dan. vol. iii. p. 36, pi. 103. 



,, punctatus, Topknot, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 322, pi. 51, and 

 edit. 1776, pi. 41, but named by mistake 

 Smear Dab. 

 T.e Gros Pile on Targeur, Duhamei,, sect. ix. pi. 5, fig. 4. 

 Pleuronectes hirtus, Muller's Topknot, Jenvns, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 463, 



sp. 151. 



Several modern autliors have confounded tlie present 

 fisli with the species next to be described ; and Cuvier,* as 

 well as Professor Nilsson,-|- have brought together the Pleu- 

 ronectes hirtus of Muller, and the PI. punctatus of Bloch, 

 apparently considering them as tlie same fish. Muller 

 doubted whether the punctatus of Bloch was the same as 

 his fish, and notices the points in which they differ. The 

 opportunity of examining some specimens very recently, 

 • Regne An. t. ii. p. 341. t Prod. Ichlh. Scand. ]>. 59, sp. 11. 



