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With eyes towards the left, 



TURBOT. 



Pleuronectes Tuberculatus. P. griseofuscus, subnigro variatus, 



corpore tuberculis muricato. 

 Greyrbrown Flounder, with blackish variegations, and body 



roughened with tubercles. 

 Pleuronectes maximus. P. oculis sinistris, corpore aspero. Liv 9 



Syst. Nat. p. 450. 

 Pleuronectes tuberculis osseis scaber. Block, t. 4Q. 

 The Turbpt or Bret. Will, ichth. p. 94-. Penn. brit. zool. 3. 



The Turbot, generally considered as superior to 

 every other species as an article of food, is an in* 

 habitant of the Mediterranean and Northern seas, 

 where it often arrives at a very large size : it is 

 however far inferior in this respect to the Holibut, 

 and is therefore not very happily distinguished by 

 Linnaeus under the name of Pleuronectes maximus. 

 It is of a broader and squarer form than any other 

 of the genus except the Pearl, and is of a dark 

 brown above, marbled with blackish spots of differ- 

 ent sizes; and white beneath: the scales are so 

 small as to be scarcely observable, but the skin is 

 of a wrinkled appearance, and covered with pretty 

 numerous and moderately large pointed tubercles 

 or abrupt spines, those on the upper or coloured 

 side being far larger tjian those on the under side ; 

 the lateral line forms an arch over the pectoral fins, 

 and from thence runs strait to the tail. 



Like the rest of this genus, the Turbot generally 

 lies in deep water, preying on worms, shell-fish, 



