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meters. length. 
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PLEURONECTID 2. 
3: alan vulgaris, Fleming. 
Pleuronectes hippoglossus, LINN. Syst. Nat. ed. x, i, p. 269 
Hippoglossus vulgaris, FLEMING, Brit. Animals, p. 199.—GitnrTuer, Cat. Fish. 
Brit. Mus. iv, 1862, p. 403. 
Hippoglossus americanus, GILL, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 220. 
The New London halibut-smacks obtain many halibut on the south 
part of George’s Banks and the neighboring shoals. An individual was 
taken, years ago, on the outer side of Fisher’s Island, Connecticut. The 
halibut may, in all probability, be found to be abundant on the edge 
of the continental slope south of Cape Cod, since here have been re- 
cently obtained nearly all the species most constantly associated on the 
northern halibut grounds on the outer edges of La Have, Brown’s, Sable 
Island, and other banks off the coast of Nova Scotia and Newfound- 
land. 
6. Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius) Gill. 
Pleuronectes platessoides, FABRICIUS, Fauna Groenlandica, 1780, p. 164 (excel- 
lent description).—‘ Vidensk. Selsk. Naturv. och Mathem. Afhandl. i, 
p. 50, pl. ii, fig. 2.” 
Citharus platessoides, REINHARDT, ibid. vii, 1538, p. 130.—KR6yYER, in Gaimard, 
Voyages en Scandinavie, ete. pls. xxi (excellent figure). 
Drepano(p)setta platessoides, GILL, Cat. Fish. E. Coast N. America, 1861, p. 50. 
Hippoglossoides platessoides, GL, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 217.— 
GoopE & BEAN, Cat. Fish. Essex Inst. 1879, p. 7. 
Platessa dentata (not Pleuronectes dentatus, Mitchill), Stormer, Rep. Fisb. 
Mass. 1839, p. 143; Hist. Fish. Mass. 1867, p. 197, pl. xxx, fig. 3. 
Hippoglossoides dentatus, GILL, Cat. Fish. E. Coast N. A. 1861, p. 50.—GUN- 
THER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. iv, 1862, p. 406. 
Pomatopsetta dentata, GiLL, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. 1864, p. 217 (with def. of 
Pomatopsetta, p. 216). 
Hippoglossoides limandoides, GOODE & BEAN, Amer. Journ. Sci. & Arts, xvii, 
1876, p. 39. 
Not unusual in deep water off Southern Massachusetts and Rhode 
Island, approaching the coasts in winter, but not taken in these trips 
of the Fish Commission steamer. 
