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Solea arnoglossa Rafinesque, Indice, 1810, 52 (after Perpeire of Rondelet). 
Rhombus nudus Risso, Hur. Mérid., ili, 251, 1826. 
Pleuronectes pellucidus Nardo, Ichth. Adriat., 134, 1824. 
Habitat.—Coasts of Southern Europe, north to England. 
This small flounder reaches a length of about six inches. It is com- 
mon in the Mediterranean and as far north as the English coast. Our 
specimens were collected by Dr. Jordan in Venice. 
35. ARNOGLOSSUS(?) PIMBRIATUS. 
Hemirhombus fimbriatus Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1885, 591. (Deep 
waters of the Gulf of Mexico.) 
Habitat.—Deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. 
We know this species from the original description only. As the 
authors of the species say that ‘“‘the teeth are uniserial in both jaws” 
we are unable to see why they have placed it in Hemirhombus. So 
far as the description goes it agrees better with Arnoglossus, in which 
genus we have provisionally placed it. But the gill-rakers in jimbria- 
tus are said to be tubercular, as in Azevia, while-those of Arnoglossus are 
slender. The proper position of the species is therefore uncertain. 
36. ARNOGLOSSUS (?) VENTRALIS. - 
Citharichthys ventralis Goode & Bean, Proc..U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1885, 592. (Deep waters 
of Gulf of Mexico.) 
Habitat.—Deep waters of Gulf of Mexico. 
We know this species from the original description only. It is cer- 
tainly not a Citharichthys. Among the known genera it seems to come 
nearest Arnoglossus or to Lepidorhombus, but the latter genus has a ped- 
unculate caudal and teeth on the romer, while the former has cycloid 
or scarcely ctenoid deciduous scales. 
Genus X VII.—PLATOPHRYS. 
Solea Rafinesque, Indice di Ittiologia Siciliana, 1810, 52 (rhomboide) (not of Quensel, 
1806). 
Platophrys Swainson, Nat. Hist. Class’n Fishes, iy 1839, 302 (ocellatus). 
Peloria Cocco, Intorno ad Alcuni Pesci del mar di Messina, Giorn. del Gabin., 1844, 
pp. 21-30, Lettere di Messina (heckeli, a larval form of P. podas) (not Pe- 
lorus of Montfort, 1808). 
? Coccolus* (Bonaparte) Cocco, 1. c. (annectens : larval form—probably of P. podas, 
with the right eye in transitu to the left side). 
Bothus Bonaparte, Catologo Metodico, 1846, 49 (podas) (not of Rafinesque). 
Rhomboidichthys Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Nederl. Manad. & Makassar, 67 (myri- 
aster), 18578. 
Platophrys Bleeker, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Amsterd., 1862, xiii Plewron, 5 (ocel- 
latus). 
* “Parvus mole et pleuronectiformis, medius inter Pleuronectidas et Bibroniinos 
hic piscis videtur! Attamen dum illi oculos unilaterales habeant, iste vero bilater- 
ales; in hoc novo genere oculi, alter a latere, altere in vertico vix ad appositum 
latus convenus positi sunt.” (Bonaparte: quoted by Facciola, Su di Aleuni Rari 
Pleuronettidi. ) 
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