PLATE 39 
PLATE XLVI. 
PLEURONECTES MAXIMUS. 
TURBOT. 
* PISCES THORACICI. 
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GENERIC CHARACTER. 
tlead small. Eyes spherical, both on the same side of the head, 
®tid near each other. Mouth arcuated. Jaws dentated, unequal, 
^jll-membrane with from four to seven rays. Gill-covers of three 
plates in general. Body compressed, carinated ; upper side sub-con- 
: beneath flat and pale. Vent nearer the head. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
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SYNONYMS, 
Body rotundate, above griseous, variegated with fuscous, and tuber* 
culated. 
Bleuronectes Maximus: corpore rotundato supra griseo fusco- 
variegato tuberculato. 
Beeuronectes Maximus : corpore aspero. Linn. Fn. Suec. 325. 
—3fus. Ad. Fr. 2. p. 69. — Gmel. Sys(, 
Nat. p. ]236. .‘ip. 14. 
Beeuronectes tuberculis osseis scaber. Bloch Fisch. Deiitschl, 3, 
p. 53. n. 8. t. 49. 
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