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PLEURONECTID^E. 



SUBBRACHIAL 

 MALACOPTERYCIL 



PLEURONECTID^. 



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Kv^^^ 



THE SCALDFISH. 



MEGHiM, Cornwall, smooth sole. 



Rhombus Arnoglossus, Scaldfish, Yarrell. 



,, ,, CuviER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 342. 



Arnoglossus IcEvis, 

 Pleuronectes casurus, 



,, Arnoglossus, 



Rhombus nudus, 



WiLLUGHBY, p. 102, F. 8, fig. 7. 

 Penn. Brit. Zool. vol.iii.p. 325, pi. 53. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 197, sp. 100. 

 Risso, Hist. t. iii. p. 251, sp. 141. 



The Scaldfish, or Megkim, as it is called in Corn- 

 wall, appears, like the species last described, to be in this 

 country, as far as we yet know, exclusively confined to the 

 southern coast, and is only at present recorded as having 

 been taken between Weymouth and the Land's End. 



Mr. Couch says, " he has never known it take a bait, and 

 its diminutive size prevents its being an object of attention 

 to fishermen ; but they say it is much preyed upon by Con- 

 gers and other large fishes, in the stomachs of which they 

 often find it : it follows from this that it keeps in deep 

 water." It seldom exceeds four or five inches in length ; 

 but Mr. Couch has seen one that measured six inches and 

 a half. M. Risso says the females are very prolific. 



