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PLATE LXIL 
PLEURONECTES SOLEA. 
COMMON SOLE. 
* PISCES THORACICI. 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Head small. Eyes spherical, both on the same side of the head, i 
“^tid hear each other. Mouth arcuated. Jaws deiitated, unequal. 
Hill-membrane with from four to seven rays. Gill-covers of three 
piates in general. Body compressed, carinatcd ; upper side sub-con- 
: beneath flat and pale. Vent near the head. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Body oblong, rough ; lower jaw longest. 
^LEuronectes Solea : corpore aspero oblongo maxilla superiore 
longiore. Limi. Fn. Suec.—^Gmel. Si/st. Nat- 
1232. sp. 9. 
Heuronectes Tunga. It. JVgotk. 178. 
Heuronectes maxilla superiore longiore corpore oblongo, squainis 
utrinque asperis. Art, Gen. 18. Sj/n, 32, 
spsc. 60. 
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