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CARTER. 
MAKY SOLE. aCEEH’s SOLE.? 
Wluff, 
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I'leuronectes megasloma, 
BJiombus megastoma. 
Jago: Synopsis Piscinm. 
Kat; pi. 2, f. 2. 
Linnbam Tjransaciioss, voi. xiv, p. ~t 
Donovan; pi, 51. 
rAllKELL. 
This may be called a common fish along the south coasts 
of Britain, but how far it answers to some of the flatfishes 
found in the Mediterranean Sea or south of Europe, which 
are designated by the appellation of Oculata, from the eye-like 
or circular spots which lie along the borders of their coloured 
surface, I have not the means of knowing, since the figures of 
the latter which 1 have seen are very imperfect, and the 
descriptions little less so. But in Cornwall the Carter is not 
unfrequently taken with a line, as well as in the trawl, and I 
have found a fish three or four inches long in its stomach; 
but it is little valued in the market on account of its meagre 
appearance, the quantity of flesh which clothes its skeleton 
being in less abundance than is common with any other of 
the British flatfishes. The body is indeed so thin as to 
authorise the name of Lanthorn Fish, by which it is sometimes 
called. 
But there is an interest attending it arising from its having 
been confounded with the western examples of the Sail Fluke, 
under the common name of Rhombus megastoma; from the 
fact that both of them are alike characterized by a large gape, 
which is indeed the chief particular that marks this section 
of the family of flatfishes. But a glance at the figures of 
cacli of these fishes will shew tliat in their relative proportions 
they difllGr much. Wheu full grown tire Sail Fluke reaches a 
