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JAPANESE FLOUNDER 



Pleuronecfes Japonicus. P. lingua aspera. Lin. Syst. Nat< 



Gmel. p. 1240. Houttuyn. act. haarl. 20. 2. p. 3 17. 

 Flounder with rough tongue. 



LENGTH about six inches : colour brownisty above, 

 whitish beneath : rays of the dorsal and anal fin so 

 extremely numerous as to be with difficulty counted : 

 tongue remarkably rough ; native of the Japanese 

 seas, 



