MULLER S TOPKNOT. 



US 



SUBBRACHIAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



PLEURONECriD^. 



Av^, 





MULLER'S TOPKNOT. 



Rhombus hirtus, MuUer^s Topknot, Yarrell. 



Pleuronectes hirtus, Muller, Zool. Dan. vol. iii. p. 36, pi. 103. 



,, punctatus, Topknot, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 322, pi. 51, and 

 edit. 1776, pi. 41, but named by mistake 

 Smear Dab. 

 Le Gros Plie ou Targeur, Duhamel, sect. ix. pi. 5, fig. 4. 

 Pleuronectes hirtus, Muller''s Topknot, Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 463, 



sp. 151. 



Several modern authors have confounded the present 

 fish with the species next to be described ; and Cuvier,* as 

 well as Professor Nilsson,-)- have brought together the Pleu- 

 ronectes hirtus of Muller, and the PL punctatus of Bloch, 

 apparently considering them as the same fish. Muller 

 doubted whether the punctatus of Bloch was the same as 

 his fish, and notices the points in which they differ. The 

 opportunity of examining som'e specimens very recently, 



* Regne An. t. ii. p. 341. f Prod. Ichlh. Scand. p. 59, sp. 11. 



