Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of North .hncrica. 223 



Greenland, Fabricius. 



'ailed " Ingmingoak," by the Greenlanders. 



Coryphrena rupeslris, Fabricius, Fauna Groenlanilica, p. 1"4 

 Macrourua rupesiris (Schneider), Bloch, xxvi. p. 103. 



Rock Grenadier, Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ, ill. p. 254. 



FAMILY XXIV. PLANIDiE. 



Body flat, compressed vertically. Upper surface dusky, and of various 

 colors ; beneath white. Dorsal single, extending the whole length of the 

 back. Both eyes placed on the same side of the head. No air-bladder. 

 Branchial rays six. 



GENUS I. HIPPOGLOSSUS, Cuv. 



Both eyes and the color on the right side, and the fins are similar to those of 

 the species of the following genus ; the jaws and the pharynx are armed with 

 teeth that are sharper and stronger, and the form of the body is more elon- 

 gated. 



I . Hippoglossus vulgaris, Cuv. 



Body oblong, very large, smooth. Of a dark-brown color on the right side, left side 

 white- Lateral line arched above the pectorals- 



D. 09. P. 17. V. 6. A. 73. C. 18. Length, from 3 to 6 feet. 



Greenland, Fabricius- Maine and Massachusetts, Storer. Connecticut, Linsley. 



New York, Mitchill, Dekay. 



Pleuronecles Hippoglossus, Lin., Syst. Nat., p. 456. 



" HolybuL, Bloch, 11. p. 44, pi. 47. 



" " Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica, p. 161. 



" " Holibut, Shaw's Gen.Znbl., iv. p. 295. 



" " " Pennant's Brit. Zoffl., III. p. 302. 



" " Halibut, Mitchiix, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y, I. p. 386. 



Hippoglossus vulgaris, Holibut, Jenvns's Brit. Vert., p. 460. 



" " Griffith's Cuv., x. p. 494. 



" Holibut, Yarrell's Brit. Fishes (1st edit.), II. p. 230; (2d edit.), n. p. 321. 



" " Halibut, Storer's Report, p. 145. 



" " " Pekay's Report, p. 294, pi. 49, fig. 157. 



GENUS II. PLATESSA, Cuv. 



Body rhomboidal, depressed ; both eyes generally on the right side of the 

 head, one above the other ; a row of teeth in each jaw, with others on 

 the pharyngeal bones ; dorsal fin commencing over the upper eye, that fin 



