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Jordan at Havana with this species. In the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology are other specimens similar to these, sent to Cambridge by Poey. 

 In several respects these specimens agree fairly with Poey's P. ellipticus, 

 but that species is said to have 104 dorsal rays, (macula, spot; fero, I 

 bear.) 



? Pleuronectes maculiferus, POEY, Meraorias, n, 316, 1860, Cienfuegos. (Coll. Poey.) 

 ? Rhornboidichthys maculiferus, POEY, Synopsis, 408, 1868 ; POEY, Euumeratio, 139, 1875. 

 Platophrys maculifer, JORDAN & Goss. lleview Flounders and Soles, 267, 1889. 

 I'latophrys ellipticus, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 51 ; not of POEY. 



3034. PLATOPHRIS ELLIPTICUS (Poey). 



Depth If. D. 105; A. 80; scales 91. Body elliptical, ovate; anterior 

 profile of head convex before the interorbital area; pectoral short; inter- 

 orbital space 2f in head; body deep. Color (specimen 4f inches long) 

 grayish, much spotted and mottled with whitish; no blue (in young exam- 

 ple). Cuba. Poey describes his P. ellipticus as having 104 dorsal rays. 

 In none of our other species does the number of these rays reach 100. 

 Among the specimens sent by Poey to the museum at Cambridge is 1, 

 described above, 4f inches long, which has 105 dorsal rays. We have 

 therefore assumed that the species to which this specimen belongs is the 

 real P. ellipticus, and that the one heretofore called P. ellipticus is Poey's 

 P. maculifer. Both these assumptions are open to considerable doubt. 

 (ellipticus, elliptical.) 



? Pleuronectes ellipticus, POEY, Memorias, n, 315, 1860, Cuba. (Coll. Poey.) 



1 Romboidichthys ellipticus, GriJNTHER,Cat., IV, 434, 1862; POEY, Synopsis, 408, 1868; POEY, 



Enumeratio, 139, 1875. 

 Platophrys ellipticus, JORDAN & Goss, lleview Flounders and Soles, 267, 1889. 



3035. PLATOPHRYS LUtfATUS (Linnteus). 

 (PEACOCK FLOUNDER. ) 



Head 3| in length ; depth 2. D. 93 ; A . 70 ; scales 90 ; lower eye 6 in head ; 

 maxillary 2; interorbital 2|; highest dorsal rays2|; highest anal rays 2; 

 caudal 1|; base of ventral of eyed side 3. Vertebra 9 -f- 30 = 39. Fody 

 elliptical, ovate, strongly compressed; anterior profile concave, the snout 

 projecting, leaving a reentrant angle above it ; mouth moderate, the maxil- 

 lary reaching to middle of pupil of lower eye; jaws subequal, the lower 

 with a well-developed knob at symphysis, teeth small, in an irregular 

 double series in each jaw; anterior end of maxillary with a large blunt 

 spine, pointing outward and forward, a smaller one behind it on upper 

 edge of maxillary, pointing upward and backward; iuterorbital very 

 wide and deeply concave; orbital rim, below on upper orbit, above on 

 lower, broken up into blunt papillae ; gill rakers short and thick, 9 devel- 

 oped on lower part of arch, none on upper. Anterior part of interorbital, 

 snout, maxillary, and mandible, naked; scales all cycloid; the rays of 

 dorsal and anal with scales, a few on ventral of eyed side; arch of lateral 

 line 5 in straight part. Pectoral of eyed side filamentous, reaching to base 

 of caudal, its mate of opposite side shorter, about If in head ; origin of 

 dorsal over snout; ventral of eyed side with a long base, extending from 

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