PLAT 43 
\ 
PLATE XC. 
PLEURONECTES CYCLOPS. 
■ CYCLOPS FLOUNDER. 
*** PISCES THORJCICI. 
GENERIC CHARACTER- 
Head small. Eyes spherical, both on the same side of the head, 
3nd near each other. Mouth arcuated. Jaws dentated, unequal. 
Gill-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. 
Left eye sub-vertical, and visible both sides. 
1*eeuronectes Cyclops : oculis sinistro subvcrtlcali, in utro latere 
visu. 
Our Pkuronectes Cyclops was discovered a few years since by 
Gapt. Merrick of Aberfraw in Anglesea, North Wales, on ’the sea 
coast near his own residence : he observed it in a shallow .cavity of 
®ne of the rocks at a small distance below high water mark, where it 
J apparently been recently left by the retiring tide. . The fish, wa< 
1 
