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Pleuronectes punctatus.—Top-knot. Not un- 
common. 
* Pleuronectes arnglossus.—* Scald fish.” Said 
to have been found only as yet at Plymouth. Mr. 
Couch however recognizes it as Cornish. 
Solea vulgaris.— Sole. Common. 
~* Solea variegata——At Plymouth. (Hanmer.) 
Cornwall. (Mr Couch.) 
* Monochirus minutus. (Parnell.)—Zittle sole. 
Brixham. 
Platessa vulgaris.—Plaise. Common. 
Platessa Flesus. —Flounder. Common. Has 
through the effects of floods obtained a locality i in 
Slapton Ley. 
Platessa Limanda.—-Dab. Common. 
Hippoglossus vulgaris.—Aolibul. Common. 
Anguilla vulgaris. “Eel. Eels devour the fry of 
their own kind. 
Anguilla Conger.—Conger eel. Abundant. 
* Ophidium imberbe.—Devon. (Montagu.) 
Leuciscus rutilus—Roach. In Slapton Ley. 
Leuciscus phoxinus.—Minnow. Common in 
small streams. 
Leuciscus vulgaris— Dace. Found in the Tamar. 
Leuciscus cephalus.—Chubb. In the Exe. 
(Turton and Kingston.) 
* Cyclopterus coronatus, (Couch) * Raniceps 
Jago, * Murena Helena, Little gorefish, and * Mor- 
hua minuta have been taken in Cornwall. 
The little Cyprinus auratus, or Golden carp, a 
naturalized species, is found as Mr. Bartlett informs 
me, in the stream at Brixham. 
ACANTHOPTERYGIOUS FISHES. 
Cepola rubescens.— Redband jish. Two speci- 
mens recorded by Montagu as found off Devon. 
Found off Cornwall not uncommonly. (Couch) Since 
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