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side. The common halibut, Hippoglossus hippoglossus, and the 

 winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Fig. 403), are 

 important American food- fishes. 



FIG. 403. The flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus. 

 after Goode.) 



(From Dean, 



Family GADID^E. The Codfishes. Many of our most im- 

 portant food-fishes, the pollacks, codfishes, haddocks, and hakes, 

 belong to this family. The common codfish is Gadus callarias 

 (Fig. 404). " From the earliest settlement of America the cod 



FIG. 404. The cod, Gadus callarias. (From the Cambridge Natural 

 History, after Goode.) 



has been the most valuable of our Atlantic coast fishes. In- 

 deed, the codfish of the Banks of Newfoundland was one of the 



