COMMON DAB. 



SUBBRACHIAL 



MALACOPTERYG1I. PLEURONECTID&. 



1P- 



COMMON DAB. 



SALT1E, AND SALT-WATER FLEUK, Edinburgh. 



Platessa limanda, Dab, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 198, sp, 105. 



,, ,, La Limande, CUVIER, Hegne An. t. ii. pp. 339 & 340. 



Passer asper, Dab, WILLUGHBY, p. 97, F. 4. 



Pleuronectes limanda, LINN.KUS. BLOCH, pt. ii. pi. 46. 



Dab, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 308. 



DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 44. 



THE DAB is common to all the sandy parts of the coast, 

 and is usually caught along with Plaice and Flounder ; but 

 is immediately distinguished from either by its more uni- 

 form and lighter brown colour, its more curved lateral line, 

 and the roughness of the scaly surface, from which latter 

 circumstance it has been called in Latin, limanda, from lima, 

 a file. Dr. Neill reports it as common in the market of 

 Edinburgh, where it is called Saltie, or Salt-water Fleuk. 

 I have received it from Berwick, and it is taken at Yar- 

 mouth. It is very common in the London market, and 

 Colonel Montagu says it is caught along the Devonshire 

 coast with the seine-net ; many are also taken by trawling. 



