PLATE 42 
PLATE 'll 
PLEURONECTES MEGASTOMA. 
WHIFF. 
PISCES THORACICI. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head small. Eyes spherical, both on the same side of the head, 
®Rd near each other. Mouth arcuated. Jaws dentated, unequal, 
■^ill-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 nearest the head. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Body oblong, livid variegated with blackish : mouth large, inferior 
advanced : lateral line incurvated 
^^-Euronectes Megastoma : corpore oblongo livido nigricante- 
variegato, ore magno : maxilla inferiore porrecta, 
llnca lateral! incurvata. 
Ray Syn. p. \&2. pi. \.f. 2. 
Penn. Brit, Zool. 3 . p. 1 1 1 . 
