396 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 

 Genus Pseudopleuronectes Bleeker. 

 The Winter Flounders. 



Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum). 



Pirate 89. 



Flat Fish. Flounder. Winter Flounder. New York Flat Fish. 



The lateral line is not arched. 



Although I have no New Jersey examples this fish is frequently 

 brought from various points along the New Jersey coast and 

 offered for sale in the markets of Philadelphia during cold 

 weather. It is a good food-fish, reaching a length of 15 inches 

 and a weight of about 2 pounds. 



Pseudopleuronectes americanus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 

 819.— Smith, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 380. 



Pleuronectes americanus Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, 



P- 135. 



Platessa plana Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 349. 



Family SOLEID^. 



The Soles. 



Body oblong or elongate. Eyes small, close together, with or 

 without a bony ridge between them. Mouth very small, much 

 twisted toward eyed side. Teeth in villi form bands, very small 

 or obsolete. Edge of preopercle adnate, concealed by skin and 

 scales. Gill-membranes adnate to shoulder-girdle above. Gill- 

 openings narrow. Body usually scaly. Pectorals small or want- 

 ing. Ventrals small, i or both sometimes wanting. 



Small fishes of sandy bottoms, and those of sufficient size 

 valued as food. A single species along our shores. 



