2660 Bulletin 4.7, United Stafes National Museum. 



also closely related, but the typical species, Psetta maxima, is a large 

 robust fish, scaleless and beset with bony tubercles. (Ad0o, crest ; 

 turbot.) 



3029. LOPHOPSETTA MACULATA (Mitclrill). 

 PANE.) 



HeadSJ; depth If. D.65; A, 52; scales 85; eye 4 in head; pectoral li; 

 highest dorsal rays 1-J; highest anal rays 1; interorbital space i eye. 

 Body broadly rhomboid, strongly compressed, translucent in-life; mouth 

 large, the maxillary reaching nearly to posterior margin of eye, maxillary 

 of eyed side with a bony tubercle on its anterior end; jaws subequal, the 

 lower with a sharp knob at symphysis; teeth in each jaw in 1 series 

 laterally, in a very narrow band in front ; interorbital space rather broad, 

 slightly concave, its posterior third or fourth with scales; gill rakers 

 short and slender, about 8+25; maxillary, mandibles, snout, and the 

 greater part of interorbital naked; scales on head and body cycloid, 

 loosely imbricated, those on the blind side a little smaller. Anterior rays 

 of dorsal produced, their ends branched and free, the first on tip of snout, 

 the rays at the beginning of posterior third of fin the highest ; origin of 

 anal directly under angle of preopercle; base of ventrals long, that of the 

 eyed side extending along ridge of body from notch in isthmus to front of 

 anal, base of ventral on blind side shorter; pectoral reaching past curve 

 on eyed side, its mate much smaller ; caudal rather long. Color light olive 

 brown, almost translucent, everywhere marbled with paler, and with 

 many small, irregular, sharply defined black spots; dorsal, anal, and 

 caudal with larger, round, blended spots of dark brown; pectoral with 

 brown, interrupted cross lines. This small flounder much resembles the 

 European Brill (Bothus rhombus}, but is smaller, thinner, and more trans- 

 lucent in body. Its weight rarely exceeds a pound or two, and its value as 

 a food-fish is but slight ; nevertheless, it is a near ally of the European 

 Turbot (Psetta maxima), and in its technical characters it very closely agrees 

 with the latter species. Atlantic coast of United States, from Casco Bay 

 to South Carolina; common, (maculatus, spotted.) 



Pleuronectes maculatus, MITCHILL, Kept, in part, Fish. 1ST. Y ., 9, 1814, New York ; DE KAY, 



New York Fauna: Fishes, 301, pi. 47, fig. 151, 1842; STOKER, Synopsis, 479, 1846; 



STOKER, Hist. Fish. Mass., 204, 1867; JORDAN & Goss, Review of Flounders and Soles, 



258, 1889. 

 Pleuronectes aquosus, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y.,i, 1815, 389, pi. 2, fig. 3, 



New York. 

 Lophopsetta maculata, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci.Phila. 1862, 216,- ibid, 1864, 220; JORDAN &' 



GILBERT, Proc. TJ. S. Nat, Mus. 1878, 371. 

 Bothus maculatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 815, 1883. 

 Rhombus aquosus, GUNTHER, Cat.,iv, 411, 1862. 



1044. PLATOPHRYS, Swainson. 



Solea, RAFINESQUE, Indice di Ittiologia Siciliana, 52 f 1810 (rhomboide) ; not of QUENSEL, 



1806. 



Platophrys, SWAINSON, Nat. Hist. Class'n Fishes, 11, 302, 1839 (ocellatus). 

 Pelo-ria, Cocco, Intorno ad Alcuni Pesci del mar di Messina, Gioni. del Gabin., 1844, 21-30, 



Lettere di Messina (heckeli, a larval form of P. podat) ; not Pelorus of MONTFORT, 



1808. 



