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This grenadier inliabits the West Indies, the Gulf of Mexico, 

 aud is found in the Gulf Stream in deep water. It is abundant. 

 The U. ^^. Fish Commission steamer, Fish Hmck, has taken it in 

 the Gulf Stream off Rhode Island in 115 fathoms. The fish is 

 described and figured by Goode and Bean, Ooeaynic IcMhijology, 



p. 398, fig. 336. 



Order heterosomata 



Flatfishes 

 Family fleuronectidae 



Flounders 

 Genus hippoglossus Curler 

 Eyes and color on the right side; form oblong, not strongly 

 compressed; mouth wide, oblique; teeth in the upper jaw in two 

 series, those below in one, anterior teeth in upper jaw, and 

 lateral teeth in lower, strong, no teeth on vomer or palatines, 

 lower pharyngeal teeth in two rows; dorsal fin beginning above 

 ili(' eye, its middle rays elevated, the posterior rays of dorsal and 

 iinal bifid; caudal fin lunate; ventral fins both lateral; scales 

 very small, cycloid; lateral line with a strong curve in front; gill 

 rakers few, short, compressed, wide set. Vertebrae 16+34. 

 l^argest of the fiounders. One species; abundant on both coasts 

 (f the nortli Atlantic and of the north Pacific. 



358 Hippoglossus hippoglossus (Linnaeus) 

 Halibut 



I'll initurilcn hippoglossus LiNNAEUs, Syst. Nal.ed. X, I, 269, 1758; Mitchill,, 



K.-I'. I''ish. X. Y. 10, 1814; Trans. Lit. & Phil. See. X. Y. I, 386, 1815. 

 y///)/".'//'M-.s nih/arifi De Kay, X.Y. Fauna, Fishes. 294, pi. 49, &s. 157, 1842; 



Cr.NTnEit. fjat. Fish. Brit. Mus. lY. 403, 1862; Storek, Hist. Fish. 



Mass. 192, 1.1. XXX, fig. 1, 1867; Goode & Bea^j, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 



7. 1879; Jokdan & Gilbekt, Bull. 16, U. S. Xat. Mus. 819, 1883; Goode, 



Fish \- Fisli. Ind. U. S. 1, 189, pi. 54. 1884. 

 Ililil><>!ili,.ssiin liipiiDiilossus Jordan, Cat. Fish. X. A. 133, 1885; H. M. Smith, 



Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897. 108, 1898; .Tordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, IT. S. 



Nat. Mus. Ill, 2611, 1898; IV. pi. CCCLXXI, fig. 918, 1900; Siierwoob 



,V: i:i.\VAiti>s. Bull. r. S. F. C. ItMtl, 31. 1901. 



iJndy ((Miiitarjitivrly clongatt', not strongly compressed, d'eep 

 nicsially. its (|('|iili unc iliird of total liMigth without caudal, 

 ta|i.Ting rapidly in its iKistcrior half; licad broad, moderately 



