JAPANESE FLOUNDER* 



Pleuronectes Japonicus. P. lingua aspera. Lin. Syst. Nat* 



Gmel p. 1240. Houttuyn. act. haarl. 20. 2. p. 317, 

 Flounder with rough tongue. 



Length about six inches : colour brownish above, 

 whitish beneath : rays of the dorsal and anal fin so 

 extremely numerous as to be with difficulty counted : 

 tongue remarkably rough : native of the Japanese 

 seas. 



