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76. LIMANDA LIMANDA. 



(The Dab.) 



Pleuronectes limanda Linnseus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, p. 270, 1758 (after Artedi) (and of the 

 early copyists), Gunther, Cat. Fish., iv, 44i>, 1862 (Firth of Forth; Ply- 

 mouth). Day, Brit. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 31, plate civ. 

 Pleuronectes Umandula Lacdpede, Hist. Nat., Poiss., iv, 180*3 (after "la Liuiaudelle ". 



Dnhamel, ix, ch. 1, p. 268, pi. 6, f. 3, 4.) 

 Limanda vulgaris Gottsche, " Wiegmaun's Archiv, 1835, 100." 

 Limanda oceanica Bonaparte, Catologo, 48, 184(1. (Platessa limanda L.) 

 .' Limanda pontica Bonaparte, 1. c, 48, 184G (Black Sen. after Pallas). 

 1'leuronectes linguatula Gronow, Syst., ed. Gray, 1854, 88 (not of L.). 



Habitat. — Northern coasts of Europe, south to France. - 



This small flounder is abundant on the coasts of Northern Europe 



and southward to the coasts of France. Our specimens are from the 



market at Paris. 

 Gunther speaks of other specimens, more elougate, the depth being 



but two fifths the length without caudal. The synonym Pleuronectes 



Umandula would appear to belong to this latter type. 



77. LIMANDA ASPERA. 

 [Plate XIII. ] 



Pleuronectes asper Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso. -Asiat., 1811, iii, 42.") (east coast of Siheria). 

 Gunther, iv, 454, 1862 (copied). Steiudachuer, Pleurouectiden, etc., avis 

 Decastris Bay, 1870-5 (Decastris Bay). Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis Fish. 

 N. A., 1882, 835. (Description from Alaskan specimens collected by Dr. Bean.) 



Limanda aspera Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., 1881, p. 242 (Sitka, St. Paul, Humboldt 

 Harbor, Shumagins, Port Clareuce, Plover Bay, Siberia; Indian Point; Si- 

 beria). Bean, Cat. Col. Fish, U.S. Nat. Mus., 1883, p. 20. (Sitka, Alaska.) 

 Bean, Proc. U. S., Nat. Mus., 1883, p. 354 (Port Simpson, Cardenas Bay, British 

 Columbia). Bean, Hist. Aquat. Auini., 1834, 184, pi. 48. (Gulf of Alaska, 

 Unalashka, Sitka, Wrangel.) 



Habitat. — Coasts of Alaska and Kamtschatka. 



This species is chiefly known from the accounts given by Dr. Bean, 

 who has collected it in various localities in Alaska. Its scales are 

 larger and rougher than in L. ferruginca which, in many respects, it re- 

 sembles. A specimen from the island of Saghalien is in the museum at 

 Cambridge. 



78. LIMANDA BEANI. 



Limanda beani Cootie, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 473 (southern coast New England, 



deep-sea stations, 875,876). 

 ricuronectes beani Jordan and Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., p. 635, 1882. 



Habitat. — Deep water off the coasts of JSTew England. 

 We know this species only from the accounts given by Professor 

 Goode. 



