fishes, thoracic. 26. Fleuroneaes. 761 
Tail equal ; tody cinereous, tranfverfely barred with 
black. 
Inhabits Jamakd ; 5 inches long ; body fcaly, and gradually 
tapering towards each end. 
Eyes large, pupil black, iris white; mouth fmall ; teeth fmall, 
lliarp, dil'pofed in rows; Honguc round, cartilaginous; late- 
ral line curved ; firft ray of the fore dorfal fin black, uroader 
and longer, the reft fpinous. 
26. PLEURONECTES. Head fmall : eyes 
fphcerical, both on the fame fide of the 
heal, and near each other: vioutk 
arched : jaws unec^ual, toothed . gill- 
membrane with 4 — 7 t'ays ; the cover 
(moftly) of 3 laminae: body convex 
and coloured above, flat and paler 
beneath : vent nearer the head. 
This genus comprehends thofc which are commonly called flat- 
fiflf; they fwL conftantly obliquely and refide at the bot- 
tom of the water, from their wanting the au-bladder , they 
often bury themfclves in the land aS far as the head by 
which th4^ efcape the jaws of the more rapacious tribes ; 
the evM are cohered with a n,aitant membrane ; 
double and contiguous; belly without ribs , foft, and 
moftly with ftmple rays ; the ventral and peaoral long, the 
tail generally founded, with bifid rays. 
K- 
A. Eyes both on the right fide of the head. 
p . 
Body rough ; peftoral fine filiform. 
Inhabits Ainboina. . * 
Body brown with dulky fpots ; lateral fins ar y 
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