LEMON DAB. 



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SUBBRACHIAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



PLEVRONEC'IIDA::. 



LEMON DAB. SMOOTH DAB. 



SMEAR DAB. — SANDFLEUK, Edinburgh. 

 TOWN-DAB, Hastings. — mary-sole, Devonshire. 



Platessa microcephalus, Smear Dab, Flem. Brit. An. p. 198, sp. 106. 



,, microcephala, Lemon Dab, Jenyns, Man. Brit.Yert. p. 457, sp. 144. 

 Pleuronectes IcEvis, Smear Dab, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 309, pi. 47. 



,, microcephalus. Small-headed Dab, Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 42. 



The Lemon Dab, or Smooth Dab, is not of sucli 

 frequent occurrence as the common Rough Dab ; and is, on 

 account of a mixture of various shades of reddish brown and 

 yellow colours, a prettier fish to look at. It approaches 

 to a rhomboid in form, even more so than any of the 

 species of this genus as now restricted to a certain portion 

 only of those Flatfishes that have the eyes on the right side. 



In tracing the occurrence of the Smooth Dab round the 

 coast, Dr. Neill of Edinburgh says it is taken off Seton 



