396 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Genus PSEUDOPLEURONECTES Bleeker. 
The Winter Flounders. 
Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum). 
PLATE 8o. 
Flat Fish. Flounder. Winter Flounder. New York Flat Fish. 
The lateral line is not arched. 
Although I have no New Jersey examples this fish is frequently 
brought from various points along the New Jersey coast and 
offered for sale in the markets of Philadelphia during cold 
weather. It is a good food-fish, reaching a length of 15 inches 
and a weight of about 2 pounds. 
Pseudopleuronectes americanus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 
819.—Smith, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 380. 
Pleuronectes americanus Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, 
Pp. 135. 
Platessa plana Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 349. 
Family SOLEIDZ. 
The Soles. 
Body oblong or elongate. Eyes small, close together, with or 
without a bony ridge between them. Mouth very small, much 
twisted toward eyed side. Teeth in villiform bands, very small 
or obsolete. Edge of preopercle adnate, concealed by skin and. 
scales. Gill-membranes adnate to shoulder-girdle above. Gill- 
openings narrow. Body usually scaly. Pectorals small or want- 
ing. Ventrals small, 1 or both sometimes wanting. 
Small fishes of sandy bottoms, and those of sufficient size 
valued as food. A single species along our shores. 
