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The male is the rough fish described by Pallas as P. cicatricosus. The 
smoother female is Dr. Giinther’s Pleuronectes franklinii, the sexual dif- 
ferences being much as in Liopsetta putnami. 
Indeed, as already intimated, we have little doubt that the Liopsetta 
putnami of the Atlantic is wholly identical with Liopsetta glacialis of ~ 
the Aretic Ocean, and with Liopsetta dvinensis of the northern coasts 
of Russia. 
Genus XXX VI.—PLATICHTHYS. 
Platichthys Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, 136 (rugosus—stellatus). 
TYPE: Platichthys rugosus Girard = Pleuronectes stellatus Pallas. 
This genus is composed of a single species, the largest of the small- 
mouthed fiounders, and distinguished from related forms chiefly by the 
development of coarse stellate tubercles instead of scales. 
ANALYSIS OF SPECIES OF PLATICHTHYS. 
a. Body broad and short, very robyst, the snout forming a slight angle with the pro- 
file; interocular space broad, with very rough scales; tubercles or scales coarsest 
on head and along bases of fin-rays ; lateral line without scales ; ridge above opercle 
rough; head 32; depth, 2; D. 58; A. 42; vertebre 34; color dark brown, with 
lighter markings; fins reddish-brown, dorsal and anal each with four or five black 
vertical bands; caudal with three or four black longitudinal bands. .STELLATUS, 87. 
87. PLATICHTHYS STELLATUS. 
(THE CALIFORNIA FLOUNDER.) 
[Plate XVIII. ] 
Pleuronectes stellatus Pallas, Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, iii, 1811, 416 (Alaska). Giin- 
ther, Cat. Fish., iv, 443, 1862 (Vancouver Islands, Behring Strait, Fraser 
River, Coronation Gulf). Steindachner, Plenr. von Decastris Bay, 1870, 1,. 
(Decastris Bay). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1880, p. 453 (San 
Francisco, Puget Sound, Columbia River, Monterey Bay, San Luis Obispo). 
Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 68 (San Luis Obispo). Bean, 
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1881, 240 (San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Francisco, 
Cotumbia River, Puget Sound). Jordan and Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1882. 
Bean, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1883, p. 353 (Port Simpson, Brit. Col.). Beau, Cat. 
Col. Fish. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, p. 20 (Yakutat Bay, Alaska). Jordan, Nat. 
Hist. Aquat. Anim., 1884, 184, pl. 46 (San Luis Obispo to Kamtschatka). 
Platessa stellata DeKay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, p. 301, 1842 (copied), Storer, Syn. Fish. 
N. A., 1846, p. 478 (copied). 
Platichthys stellatus Lockington, Rep. Com. Fish. Cal., 1878-79, p. 43 (San Francisco 
Bay, Humboldt Bay). Lockington, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,1879, p. 91 (San 
- Francisco). , 
Platichthys rugosus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, pp. 139, 155. Girard, U. 
S. Pacif. R. R. Sur., Fish., 148, 1859 (San Francisco, Presidio, Petaluma). 
Habitat.—Pacific coast of America, from Point Concepcion to the 
Arctic Ocean and south to Saghalien. 
