FLOUNDKli-FISllICS. 



409 



Gkms hippoglossus. 



Jiddi/ ((iiiipdrdfircl// chiiif/dlcd, nf d jidiiilcd <ir(tl shape, and sdiiicicIkiI thick (ficshji). The eijes scl an flic lii/ht 



side and far apart fniiii each alhcr. Jidrs and jiharyugeah armed ailh painted, mosfli/ fjcnt teeth, set in several 



nnrs ar in a card. Na palatine nr ranicrinc teeth- TJic dorsal fin. Ijcrjins (diove the upper eye, which is set hif/h. 



Hind niarf/in af the c((adal Hn concave. Anal spine present, thoar/h short. Scales small and ri/cloid. 



J.ateral line sharphi arcuate in front. 



The solitary species of this genus h;is lionie the [ tuiiate custoin, here as in nuiiiy other cases employed 



name of i//jji2>o^?oss».s-, i. c, large tongue", ever since the | tlie Linmean specific name to denote a subgenus, and 



time of RoNDELET. LiXN.EUS emploj'ed this name in a • it lias since l)een raised, still more unf<irtunately, by 



specific signification; but CrviKu'', following liis unfor- i Fleming'' to the rank of a generic name. 



THE HALIBUT (SW. UELGErLUNKUAN). 



HIPPOGLOSSUS VULGARIS. 



Plate XVII, tigs. 1 and 2. 



Greatest depth of the bod// in //ounc/ specimens (ahout % in. Ion//) (dmut 31 % of its lenyth, in sonieirhat older 

 ones {about \^ m. Ion//) abintt :14 or .'13% thereof, and in still older specimens about SO or 29 % thereof. Greatest 

 thickness about \'^ — durin/j i/outh nearer '/-, — of the depth (f the bod//. Least deptli of the tail less than 34 % 

 of the f/reatest depth of the bod//. Lateral line sharpi// arcuate in tite abdominal region. Lcni/fh of the hnrer 

 jau- less than half that of the head''. Hind extremit// of the upper Jau'-bone extending back cdmosf to the per- 

 pendicular from the middle of the loirer ege. The dorsal fin begins at the anterior part of the upj>er e//e, its 

 greatest height {the longest ra//) occurring exactly opposite the greatest height of the anal fin, at about the middle 

 of the length of the body minus the caudal fin. Coloration of the eye side in old specimens blackish, in younger 



ones chocolafc-broirn, marliled uifh a liglder tint: blind side u'hite. 



n. f>i: 7; D. 99 — 104'' (= ,r + .'') — 12'): A. 73—79!' 

 (= ,,■ + 8 — l.?*): P. 2 + 13 1. U: T'. 2 + 4; C. .r + 15 + .;•; 

 L. lal. l.')9 — 163 (+13 — 15 in i)inn. caud.)): Vert. 51 (=lG + 35). 



Syn. Pleuvonecten oculis a dextrn, tutus glaber, Ap.t., Gen. Pise. ji. 



17; ^y/i., p. 31; LiN., Fn. Suec, ed, II, p. 113, No. 302. 



Pleuronectes Hij)/wylossus, Lin., iSi/st. JVat., ed. X, torn. I, p. 



209; Mii,L., Zoof. Dan. Prodi:, p. 44; F abr. , Fn. Groenl., 



p. 161: Bl., Fiscli. DeutscfiL, pt. 2, p. 47, tab. XLVII; Qvex- 

 SEL, Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1806. p. 225; P.-vi-L.. Zoogr. Ross. 

 Asiat., toni. Ill, p. 421; Nir.ss., Prodr. Ictitti. Hcaiid., p. 57; 

 ScHAOERSTR., Physlogr. Sallslc. Tidskr. (H. 3), p. 312; Faber. 

 Fisch. hi., p. 148; Valenc, Voij. Isl., cett. (Gaim.), Poiss., 

 pi. 14; LiLU., Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1850, p. 333. 

 Hippogloisus vulgaris, Flmng, Brit. Aniin.. p. 199; Dek., 

 A'. Y. Fn., pt. IV, p. 294, pi. XLIX. fig. 157; Thomps., 



" "GrEBc-i eniiii rei uiagnitudiiieni indicant /^Of et Jjttto particulis, ut in \7t7t0aihv0v , iTtTtO/lCXQaif^QOr. Sic hippoglossiun dicimus 

 a niagnitiidine, non a similitudine cum liippoglosso herba." ROND., lie Pise, lib. XI, cap. X\ I. p. 325. 

 ^ Regne Animal, 1817, tome II, p. 221. 

 ' Brit. Anim., 1828, p. 199. 



'' The branch of the lower jaw on the blind side, however, may sometimes be equal in length to lialf the licad. 

 <■ Sometimes 98, according to Qvensel and Lilljeborg. 

 ,, 107, ,. ,, Bi-OCH and Day. 



,, 110, ,, ,, Faber and Mobius and Hei.scke. 



■'' According to Lilueboru. In older specimens, however, even the 33rd ray, coimting from behind, may be branched. 

 ^ Sometimes 81, according to Gottsche. 



82, „ ,, Bloch and Day. 



,, 85, ,, ,, MoBius and Heincke. 



'' According to Lilljeborg. In older specimens, however, at least internal ramification may be traced even in tlie 24th ray, counting 

 from beliiud. 



Scandinavian Fishes. * "^ 



