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76. LIMANDA LIMANDA., 
(THe Das.) 
Pleuronectes limanda Linneeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, p. 270, 1758 (after Artedi) (and of the 
early copyists). Giinther, Cat. Fish., iv, 446, 1862 (Firth of Forth; Ply- 
mouth). Day, Brit. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 31, plate ciy. 
Pleuronectes limandula Lacépéde, Hist. Nat., Poiss., iv, 1803 (after ‘‘la Limandelle ”. 
Duhamel, ix, ch. 1, p. 268, pl. 6, f. 3, 4.) 
Limanda vulgaris Gottsche, ‘‘Wiegmann’s Archiv, 1835, 100.” 
Limanda oceanica Bonaparte, Catologo, 48, 1846. (Platessa limanda L.) 
? Limanda pontica Bonaparte, 1. c., 48, 1846 (Black Sea, after Pallas). 
Pleuronectes linguatula Gronow, Syst., ed. Gray, 1854, 88 (not of L.). 
Habitat.—Northern coasts of Europe, south to France. 
This small flounder is abundant on the coasts of Northern Europe 
and southward to the coasts of France. Our specimens are from the 
market at Paris. 
Giinther speaks of other specimens, more elongate, the depth being 
but two-fifths the length without caudal. The synonym Pleuronectes 
limandula would appear to belong to this latter type. 
77. LIMANDA ASPERA. 
[Plate XIII. ] 
Pieuronectes asper Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso.-Asiat., 1811, iii, 425 (east coast of Siberia). 
Giinther, iv, 454, 1862 (copied). Steindachner, Pleuronectiden, etc., aus 
Decastris Bay, 1870-5 (Decastris Bay). Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis Fish. 
N. A., 1882, 835. (Description from Alaskan specimens collected by Dr. Bean.) 
Limanda aspera Bean, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1881, p. 242 (Sitka, St. Paul, Humboldt 
Harbor, Shumagins, Port Clarence, Plover Bay, Siberia; Indian Point, Si- 
beria). Bean, Cat. Col. Fish, U.S. Nat. Mus., 1883, p. 20. (Sitka, Alaska.) 
Bean, Proc. U.S., Nat. Mus., 1883, p. 354 (Port Simpson, Cardenas Bay, British 
Columbia). Bean, Hist. Aquat. Anim., 1884, 184, pl. 48. (Gulf of Alaska, 
Unalashka, Sitka, Wrangel. ) 
Habitat.—Coasts of Alaska and Kamtschatka. 
This species is chiefly known from the accounts given by Dr. Bean, 
who has collected it in various localities in Alaska. Its scales are 
larger and rougher than in L. ferruginea which, in many respects, it re- 
sembles. A specimen from the island of Saghalien is in the museum at 
Cambridge. . 
78. LIMANDA BEANI. 
Limanda beani Goode, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1880, 473 (southern coast New England, 
deep-sea stations, 875, 876). 
Pleuronectes beant Jordan and Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., p. $35, 1882. 
Habitat.—Deep water off the coasts of New England. 
We know this species only from the accounts given by Professor 
Goode. 
