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region little developed; those of blind side reduced; no teeth on right 

 side of either jaw; accessory lateral line long, 4- length of body; anal 

 spine small; pectorals about | length of head; ventrals rather short; 

 caudal peduncle much deeper than long; caudal large, nearly as long as 

 head. Brown, with numerous pale-bluish blotches in life, these disappear- 

 ing in spirits ; blind side white, with a strong tinge of yellow along profile 

 of head; fins plain, sometimes with black specks. Coast of California and 

 southward, Cape Mendocino to Magdalena Bay. This species is one of the 

 most abundant in the shore waters of the California coast. It is a food- 

 fish of fair quality, (guttiilatm, with small spots.) 



Fleuronichthys gitttulatus, GlRARD, Prqc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1856, 137, Tomales Bay, Cali- 

 fornia (Coll. E. Samuels) ; GIRARD, Journ. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1857, pi. 25, figs. 1-4 ; 

 GlRARD, IT. S. Pac. R. R. Surv., x, Fishes, 152, 1858 ; LOCKINGTON, Rep. Com. Fisheries 

 California, 1878-79, 44; LOCKINGTON, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mns. 1879, 94. 



Parophrys ayresi, GUNTHER, Cat., IV, 1862, 457, San Francisco. (Coll. Dr. W. O. Ayres.) 



Pleuronectes guttulatus, GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 445, 1862. 



Hypsopsetta guttulala, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 195 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mns. 1880, 453 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 68 ; JORDAN &. 

 GILBERT, Synopsis, 830, 1883; JORDAN, Nat. Hist. Aquat, Anim., 185, 1884; JORDAN 

 <fc Goss, Review of Flounders and Solea, 283, 1889. 



1031. PAROPHRYS, Girard. 



Parophrys, GlRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 139 (vetuhts). 



Body rather elongate, covered with small, cycloid scales; scales of the 

 head roughish. Head rather pointed ; mouth small, the teeth uniserial, 

 all more or less blunt, compressed, incisor-like, close set. Lateral line 

 with an accessory dorsal branch; upper eye on median line of top of head. 

 A single species, on the Pacific coast of America, The narrow interorbital 

 space and the vertical range of the upper eye give it a peculiar physiog- 

 nomy, but in most regards it is not very different from some of the species 

 of Pleuronectes. (rtapd, near; 6<j>pv$j eyebrow, from the narrow inter- 

 bital.) 



3009. PAROPHRYS YETTJLTJS, Girard. 



Head 3i ; depth 2i;eye4| in head. D. 74 to 86; A. 54 to 68; scales 105 (tubes). 

 Body elongate-elliptical ; snout very prominent, much protruding, forming 

 an abrupt angle with the descending profile ; depth of head opposite mid- 

 dle of upper eye about equaling distance from middle of orbit to snout; 

 eyes large, separated by a very narrow, high ridge, the upper with vertical 

 range ; mouth very small ; maxillary not reaching pupil ; teeth trenchant, 

 small, and rather narrow, widened at tip, about 45 teeth on left side of 

 lower jaw; few teeth on right side of lower jaw. Accessory lateral line 

 long. Pectoral about | length of head; caudal truncate, li in head; fin 

 rays entirely scaleless; scales on body all cycloid, those on cheeks often 

 slightly ciliated. Uniform light olive brown ; the young somewhat spotted 

 with blackish. Pacific coast of North America, Sitka to Santa Barbara. 

 This small flounder lives in waters of moderate depth. It is, next to 

 Platicliihys stellatus, probably the most abundant of the flounders of the 

 California coast, (vetulus, an old man.) 



