CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN FISHES. 499 



Order CC. HETEROSOMATA. The Flatfishes. 



Family CCXXIII. PLEURONECTID-ffi. The Flounders. 



Genus 993. ATHEEESTHES Jordan & Gilbert. 

 Atheresthea Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. 1880, 51 (stomias). 



2958. Atheresthes stomias (Jordan & Gilbert). Arrow-Toothed Halibut. 



San Francisco to Alaska. 



Platysomatichthys stomias Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 301, 

 off San Francisco. 



Genus 994. EEINHAEDTIUS Gill. 

 Beinhardtius Gill, Cat. E. C. Fishes, .50, 1861 (hippoglossoides). 



2959. Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (Walbaum). Greenland Halibut. 



Arctic parts of the Atlanti c, south to Finland and Grand Banks. 

 Pleuronectes cynoglossus Fabricius, Fauna Groiulandica, 163, 1780, Green- 

 land; not of Linnuius. 



Genus 995. HIPPOGLOSSUS Cuvier. 

 Hippoglossua Cuvier, R^gne Animal, ed. 1, ii, 221, 1817 (hippoglosaua). 



2960. Hippoglossus hippoglossus (Linnseus). Halibut. 



All northern seas, southward in deep waters to France, Sandy Hook, and 



San Francisco. 

 Pleuronectes hippoglossus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 269, 1758, European 



Ocean. 



Genus 996. LYOPSETTA Jordan & Goss. 



Lyopsetta Jordan & Goss, in Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. A., 135, 1885 (exilis). 



2961. Lyopsetta exilis (Jordan & Gilbert). 



North Pacific, in rather deep water; San Francisco to Alaska. 

 Hippoglossoides exilis Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 154, off 

 San Francisco, between the Golden Gate and Point Reyes. 



Genus 997. EOPSETTA Jordan & Goss. 

 Eopsetta Jordan & Goss, in Jordan, Cat., 135, 1885 (jordani). 



2962. Eopsetta jordani (Lockington). California Sole. 



West coast of United States, from Puget Sound to Monterey. 

 Hippoglossoides jordani Lockington, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 73, San 

 Francisco, 



Genus 998. HIPPOGLOSSOIDES Gottsche. 



Hippoglossoides Gottsche, Wiegmann's Archiv 1835, 164 {"lamanda" ^plates- 



soides). 



2963. Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius). 



North Atlantic, south to Cape Cod, and coasts of England and Scandinavia. 

 Pleuronectes platessoides Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica, 164, 1780, Greenland. 



2964. Hippoglossoides elassodon Jordan «fc Gilbert. 



Puget Sound and northward. 



Hippoglossoides elassodon Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 278, 

 Puget Sound, at Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. 



Genus 999. PSETTICHTHYS Girard. 



Psettichthys Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 140 (^melanostictus). 



2965. Psettichthys melanostictus Girard. 



Pacific Coast of North America, from Alaska south to Monterey. 

 Psettichthys melanostictus Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 140, San 

 Francisco ; Astoria, Oregon. 



