Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2615 



former having a somewhat greater number of fin rays. Thus Greenland 

 specimens, according to Collett, have D. 88, A*. 69; specimens from Fin- 

 mark have D. 92, A. 72*; these representing the var. platessoides. Specimens 

 from England (var. limandoides) have D. 80, A. 66, while those from inter- 

 mediate localities present in general fin formula) likewise intermediate, 

 showing that no sharp division is possible. This is a rather common food- 

 fish of the deep waters northward, on both sides of the ocean. North 

 Atlantic, south to Cape Cod, and the coasts of England and Scandinavia. 

 (Eu.) (platessa, the plaice; ez$o, resemblance.) 



Fleuronectes linguatula, MULLER, Zool. Dan. Prodromus, 45, 1776 ; not of LINNAEUS. 

 Pleuronectes platessoides, FABRICIUS, Fauna Greenland! ca, 164, 1780, Greenland. 

 Pleuronectes limandoides, BLOCH, Ausl. Fische, in, 24 tab. 186, 1787, Europe, and of various 



copyists. 



Pleuronectes limandanus, PAENELL, Edinburgh New Phil. Journ. 1835, 210. 

 Citharus platessoides, EEINHAKDT, Kongl. Dansk. Vid. Selsk., 116, 1838. 

 Drepanopsetta platessoides, GILL, Cat. Fish. East Coast N. A., 50, 1861. 

 Hippoglossoides platessoides, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 217; COLLETT, Norske 



Nord-Havs. Exped., 144, 1880; GOODE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 471 ; JORDAN & GIL- 

 BERT, Synopsis, 826, 1883; STEARNS, Proc. TJ. S.Nat. Mus. 1883, 125; GOODE, Nat. Hist. 



Aquatic Anim., 197, pi. 55, 1884; JORDAN & Goss, Keview Flounders and Soles, 240, pi. 



4, 1889 ; GOODE & BEAN, Ocean Ichthyology, 438, 1896, and of recent American writers 



generally. 

 Hippoglossoides limandoides, GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 405, 1862; DAY, Fishes Great Britain and 



Ireland, n, 9, pi. 45, 1884. 

 Hippoglossoides limanda, GOTTSCHE, Archiv fur Naturgesch. 1835, 168 ; not PI. limanda, 



LINNAEUS. 

 Platcssa dentata, STOEER, Kept. Fish. Mass., 143, 1839; DE KAY, N.Y. Fauna: Fishes, 298, 



1842 ; STORER, Synopsis, 476, 1846. 

 Hippoglossoides dentatus, GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 406, 1862 ; GUNTHER, Challenger Keport, xxil, 



Fishes, 3, 1887. 

 Pomatopsetta dentata, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 217. 



2981. HIPPOGLOSSOIDES ELASSODON, Jordan & Gilbert. 



Head 3; depth 2; eye 4 in head. D. 77 to 87; A. 59 to 67; V. 6; scales 

 45-100-40. Body oblong-elliptical; caudal peduncle about as long as 

 deep; upper profile of head continuqus with the outline of back; depres- 

 sion over eye slight; mouth rather large, the gape curved, considerably 

 wider on the blind side; lower jaw projecting, with a symphyseal knob;, 

 maxillary narrow, reaching beyond middle of pupil, 2 in head; teeth 

 small, close set, nearly uniform, in a single row. Gill rakers slender, 

 smooth, 14 to 16 below arch, the longest nearly | diameter of orbit. Eyes 

 large, separated by a narrow, knife-like ridge, which is naked, or with a 

 single series of scales. Scales small, firm, rough, those on tail roughest, 

 those on blind side similar, mostly smooth anteriorly. Lateral line ris- 

 ing anteriorly, but without arch ; dorsal beginning immediately in tfront 

 of pupil ; anal preceded by a spine ; caudal long ; pectoral of eyed side 

 I length of head ; ventral reaching past front of anal ; pectoral and ven- 

 tral of eyed side with prickle-like scales. Brownish, nearly uniform, 

 sometimes spotted with darker; fins grayish, irregularly blotched with 

 dusky. Body sometimes sinistral. Length 18 inches. Bering Sea south 

 to Cape Fattery; a rather abundant shore fish in Puget Sound, and it 



