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HIPPnGLOSSOTDES— OoNTHEH. 
Evfs directed towards the right; mouth wide, teeth small, in a single 
row; dorsal fin beginning above the eye; lateral line without a curve 
at its origin; (ventral fins neither close to the throat nor to the anal.) 
LONG BOUGH DAB. 
SANDNECKER. LONG ELEUK. ROUGH FLOUNDER. 
Gifharus flavus sive asperus, 
Pleuronectes Umandoides, 
Pleuronecte Ivmandoide, 
Platessa Umandoides, 
nippoglossoides Umandoides, 
Eondeletius. 
Bloch; pi. 186. Tukton’s Linnasus. 
LACErEDB. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 459. Yaekell; 
Br. Pishes, vol. ii, p. 313. 
Guntiibk; Catalogue Br. Museum, 
vol. iv, p. 405. 
This fish is scarce and but little known in Britain; so that 
when obtained it is thought worthy of jiarticular notice. It is 
especially a native of the north, and is remarked as being 
taken more commonly than elsewhere near the island of Heligo- 
land; but it is also enumerated among the fishes of Norway and 
Sweden, although it does not exist in the Baltic. Southward 
its range is limited; but it is reported by William P. Cocks, 
Esq., as having been purchased m the fish-market at Ealmouth. 
Although we suppose it to have been known to Eondeletius, 
it is not mentioned as having been met with in the Mediterranean 
nor anywhere furthei' south. It is said to prefer sandy ground, 
at a great depth, and its food, as in the generality of this 
fixmily, is taken from the bottom. Mr. Cocks found the stomach 
of his specimen filled with the shells of Turritella terehra, and 
two thirds of the number contained hermit crabs — Pagurus 
Icevis. It spawns in May and June. 
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