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STELLATED FLOUNDER. 



Pleuronectes Stellatus. PI. fuscus, tuberculis numerosissimis 

 albidis spinoso-radiatis. 



Brown Flounder, with very numerous whitish tubercles ra- 

 diated with spines. 



Pleuronectes stellatus. Pall. nov. act. Petrop. 1787* 



This elegant species is frequently found, accord- 

 ing to Dr. Pallas, about the mouths of rivers in the 

 Curile islands. Its usual length is supposed to be 

 somewhat less than a foot and half ; or nearly that 

 of a Plaise ; which it also resembles in shape : the 

 eyes are on the left side, which is of a brown colour, 

 and very thickly muricated all over with small 

 tubercles of a whitish cast, smooth in the centre 

 but radiated round the edge with small spines : the 

 under side is white, and the fins are pale with 

 dusky or blackish streaks here and there in the 

 direction of the rays. 



CAROLINA SOLE. 



Pleuronectes Dentatus. P. subfuscvs, dcntibus acutis exsertis. 

 Brownish Sole, with sharp, exserted teeth. 

 Pleuronectes dentatus. P. corpore oblongo glabro, dentibvs 

 exsertis. Lin. Syst. Nat, Gmel. p. 1236. 



Observed about Carolina by Dr. Garden : teeth 

 sharp ; tail rounded and scaly : in the dorsal fin 

 are eighty-seven rays, in the pectoral twelve, in the 

 ventral sixty-six, and in the caudal seventeen. 



v. IV. p. II. SI 



