Measurements of 10 examples from st. 2 (July 14, 1932, 150 meters, clay 

 bottom with some gravel, temperature -0.3°) follow 



Table of measurements on A . evermanni from Avachin Bay 



Average length of those measured 61.60 cm. Average depth 20.83 cm. 

 stomachs in all examples empty. One paltus contained a Clupea harengus pallasi 

 30 cm. long. This species may be of commercial importance in the trawl fishery, 



65 . Reinhardtius hippoglossoides matsuurae Jordan & Snyder 



Hippoglossus groenlandlcus Ishikawa & Matsuura (non Gunther) Pre. Cat., 1897, 



p. 25 (Sagami Bay) 

 Reinhardtius matsuurae Jordan & Snyd^er Jour. Coll. Sci Imp Univ Tokyo, 15, 1*^01 



p. 309, pXVl, figs 7-8 (after Ishikawa and Matsuura specimen), Jordan & 



Starks, Proc USNM 31. 1907, p. 196 (after Jordan & Snyder), Norman 193^1, 



p. 290. 

 Reinhardtius hippoglossoides Taranetz, 1933, I.e., p. 74 (Bering & Okhotsk Sea/ 



The black paltus until recently was known in the Pacific by a single example 

 from Sagami Bay (Pacific coast of Japan), which was described as a new species, H. 

 matsuuras by Jordan and Snyder . However, in 1931-1933, the black paltus, probably 

 identical with Japanese examples, was found by the TIRH and GGI expeditions in thi 

 Okhotsk and Bering Seas in great numbers (A. Y. Taranetz, 1933). In tJie Okhotsk Se.i 

 it occurs in many places; in Bering Sea in a limited area betv/een Cape Navarin asd 

 St. Matthew. In these regions, K.I. Panin, who studied the different relation of 

 Atlantic and Pacific subspecies of black paltus, obtained as many as 200 examples 

 of various ages of this rare form by otter trawl at depths to 250 meters. Our 

 examples, from 110 to 830 mm. were caught in this region at depths of 110 to 130 

 meters. Adult females in the four stages of sexual maturity (=year class) had 

 larger, light transparent eggs in September . In the stomachs were young mintai 

 (T. chalcogramma) . Rays in five females: D 87-94; A 66-71. 



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