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PLATESSOID FLOUNDER. 



Pleuronectes Platessoides. P. oblongus griseo-fuscus, squamii 

 mugnis asperis, corpore supra maculis brunneis notato. 



Oblong grey-brown Flounder, with large rough scales, and 

 body marked above by rufous-brown spots. 



Pleuronectes platessoides. P. corpore supra maculis bruneis* 

 Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1234. 



Native of the seas about Greenland, chiefly 

 frequenting the sandy mouths of rivers, and is not 

 a common fish: length about a foot : head smooth; 

 eyes middle-sized, with silvery irides : lower jaw 

 longer than the upper, and terminated by a tubercle : 

 tongue slender, smooth, and long : pectoral and 

 ventral fins small : tail large and roundish: general 

 shape like that of the P. Linguatula ; scales like 

 those of the common Sole, and the colour like that 

 of the Plaise, viz. greyish brown above, with 

 fulvous spots, and white beneath. Observed by 

 Otto Fabricius during his residence in Greenland, 



SILVER SOLE. 



Pleuronectes Argenteus. P. argcnteusy subtus subfuscus. 

 Silvery Sole, brownish beneath. 

 Petiv. gazopL 10. t. 26. 



Slightly described by Petiver: shape like that 

 of the common Sole : upper jaw longer than the 

 lower : lateral line strait : upper side of the body 

 of a silvery colour ; under side pale brown : native 

 of the Indian seas. 



