Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2645 



Platrssaferruyinea, D. H. STOKER, Kept. Fish. Mass., 141, pi. 2, 1839, Cape Ann; DE KAY 



New York Fauna: Fishes, 297, pi. 48, fig. 155, 1842; STORER, Syn. Fish. N. A., 476, 1846. 

 Platessa rostrata, H. R. STOKER, Boat. Journ. Nat. Hist., VI, 1850, 268, Labrador. 

 Plcuronectes ferrugineus, GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 447, 1862 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 



834, 1882. 



Myzopsetta ferruginea, GILL. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 217. 

 Limandaferruginea, GOODE, Proc. TL S. Nat. Mus. 1880,472; GOODE, Hist. Aquat. Auim., 



pi. 49, 1884 ; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 427, 1896 ; JORDAN & Goss, Review 



Flounders and Soles, 287, 1889. 

 Limanda rostrata, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 217. 



3014. LIMANDA ASPEBA (Pallas). 

 (ALASKA DAB.) 



Head 3; depth 2. D. 69; A. 53; scales about 80. Form of Lepidopsetta 

 Hlineata. Teeth small, almost conical, 011 both sides of the mouth ; iiiteror- 

 bital space narrow, scaly ; opercle and preopercle naked below ; gill rakers 

 very feeble ; pharyngeals not very broad, their teeth bluntish, not paved ; 

 scales small, wide apart, partly embedded, each one with 1 to 4 spinules, 

 which are almost erect; anterior scales with 3 to 4 of these spinules; pos- 

 terior mostly with 1; scales of blind side smoother; only middle rays of 

 dorsal and anal scaly; no accessory lateral line; anal spine present; 

 twentieth anal ray and thirty-seventh dorsal ray longest ; caudal double 

 truncate. Brown, nearly plain, the blind side with tinges of lemon yel- 

 low. Bering Sea, generally common, south to Vancouver Island and to the 

 Okhotsk Sea. We have specimens from Petropaulski and Robben Reef, 

 Bristol Bay, and Herendeen Bay. It is especially abundant in Bristol 

 Bay, and, according to Dr. Gilbert, it is an excellent food-fish. Dr. Bean 

 has also collected it in various localities in Alaska. Its scales are larger 

 and rougher than in L. ferruginea which, in many respects, it resembles. 

 A specimen from the island of Saghalien is in the museum at Cambridge. 

 The above description is from examples taken by Dr. Bean, (aspcr, 

 rough.) 



Pleuronectes asper, PALLAS, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat., HI, 425, 1811, east coast of Siberia ; GiJN- 



THER, Cat., iv, 454, 1862; STEINDACHNER, Pleuronectiden, etc., aus Decastria Bay, 1870- 



1875; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 835, 1883. 

 Limanda aspera, BEAN, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 242; BEAN, Cat. Coll. Fish, U.S. Nat. Mus. 



1883,20; BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, 354; BEAN, Hist. Aquat. Anim., 184, pi. 48, 



1884; JORDAN & Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 288, 1889. 



3015. LIMANDA PROBOSCIDEA, Gilbert. 



Depth 2 to 2|- in length ; head large, 3 to 3 in length in a specimen 7 

 inches long. D. 63 to 67 ; A. 47 to 49 ; scales 86 to 95. Resembling L.ferru- 

 ginea, but having fewer rays in dorsal and anal, larger scales and longer 

 snout. Profile sharply augulated above front of upper eye, the snout con- 

 vexly protruding ; form varying from very slender to broadly elliptical, the 

 2 outlines equally curved; caudal peduncle short, widening backward, its 

 least depth twice its length; mouth oblique, maxillary reaching beyond 

 front of lower eye, 4 in head; teeth narrow, little compressed, in a single 

 series on both sides of the jaw, extending farther back on the blind side; 

 eyes on right side; lower eye well in advance of upper, the diameter of 



