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side. The common halibut, Hippoglossus hippoglossus, and the 

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

 important American food-fishes. 



Fig. 403. — The flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus. (From Dean, 



after Goode.) 



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 



