TURBOT. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Body flat. 
Eyes both on the same side of the head. 
Gill rays from four to seven. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Pleuronectes maximus. P. corpore aspero. Linn. Syst. Nat. 
Gmel. 1. p. 1230. 
Body rough. 
Pleuronectes tuberculis osseis scaber. 
Bloch , 2. p. 53. no. 8. pi. 4Q. 
Turbot Will. Ichth. p. 93 and 94. Brit. 
Zool. 3. p. 233. no. 109. Shaw 
Gen. Zool. 4. p. 312. pi. 45. 
This fish, which has so long been considered as 
superior to every other in point of flavour, grows 
to a large size in the Mediterranean and Northern 
Seas ; where, like the rest of the genus, it lies in 
deep water, and preys on the different marine in- 
sects and shell-fish that fall in its way. The skin 
of this species is of a wrinkled appearance, and co- 
vered with numerous tubercles ; the largest are on 
the upper side. The lateral line runs over the pec- 
