698 Suborder Heterosomata 
brill, Bothus rhombus, is a common fish of southern Europe, 
deep-bodied and covered with smooth scales. 
Very similar but much smaller in size is the half translu- 
cent speckled flounder of our Atlantic coast (Lophopsetta macu- 
lata), popularly known as window-pane. This species is too 
small to have much value as food. Another species, similar 
to the brill in technical characters but very different in appear- 
ance, is the turbot, Scophthalmus maximus, of Europe. This 
large flounder has a very broad body, scaleless but covered 
with warty tubercles. It reaches a weight of seventy pounds and 
has a high value as a food-fish. There is but one species of tur- 
bot and it is found in Europe only, on sandy bottoms from 
Fic. 603.—Wide-eyed Flounder, Syacium papillosum Linneus. Pensacola, Fla. 
Norway to Italy. In a turbot of twenty-three pounds weight 
Buckland found a roe of five pounds nine ounces, with 14,311,260 
eggs. The young retains its symmetrical condition for a relatively 
long period. No true turbot is tound in America and none in 
the Pacific. Other European flounders allied to the turbot and 
brill are Zeugopterus punctatus; the European whiff, Lepido- 
rhombus whiff-jagonis; the topknot, Phrynorhombus regius; the 
lantern-flounder, Arnoglossus laterna, and the tongue-fish, Eucz- 
tharus linguatula, the last two of small size and feeble flesh. 
In the wide-eyed or peacock flounders, Platophrys podas in 
Europe, Platophrys lunatus, etc., in America, Platophrys mancus 
in Polynesia, the eyes in the old males are very far apart, 
and the changes due to age and sex are greater than in any 
other genera. The species of this group are highly variegated 
and lie on the sand in the tropical seas. Numerous small 
