306 CAROLINA SOLE. 



at their edges, and the lateral line strait. Native 

 of the Indian seas, and in considerable esteem as a 

 food. 



SLENDER-FINNED FLOUNDER. 



Pleuronectes Trichodactylus. P. griseus, fusco variegafus, 

 pinnis pectoralibiisfoiformibus. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1226. 



Grey Flounder, with dusky variegations, and filiform pectoral 

 fins. 



Pleuronectes asper canescens, pinnis lateralibus vix conspicuis. 

 Arted'i gen. 18. syn. 33. spec. 60. 



AN uncertain species, known only from the 

 description given by Artedi, who says that it is 

 rough, of a grey colour with dusky variegations ; 

 that the eyes are towards the right, and that the 

 pectoral fins are so slender as to be scarce con- 

 spicuous, consisting only of four filiform rays on 

 the coloured side of the body, and of one only on 

 the under side. Native of the Indian seas, and 

 found about Amboina. 



CAROLINA SOLE. 



Pleuronectes Plagiusa. P. oblongus- gristo-ffccus* pinna dorsaK 



caudali anatique unit is. 

 Grey-brown oblong Flounder, with the dorsal, caudal, and 



anal fins united . 

 Pleuronectes Plagiusa. P. corpore obtongo scabriusculo, pinna 



dorsali analique caudae unit is. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 122/. 



ALLIED in habit to the common Sole, but has 

 the dorsal and anal fins united with the tail, as in 



