1363 * 
Eyes on right side. Mouth curved, asymmetrical. Minute teeth 
in left jaws, absent or feeble in right jaws. Nostrils of blind side not 
dilated. Gill membranes confluent, free from isthmus. Scales ctenoid on 
both sides of body. One straight axial lateral line. Scales on left side 
of head often partially transformed into fringed cutaneous flaps. Dorsal 
and anal rays simple or divided, in caudal always branched. Dorsal begins 
on snout. Dorsal and anal separated from caudal. Both pectorals present. 
Ventrals symmetrical or nearly so, not united with anal. 
Eastern Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Weber and Beaufort 
have placed Solea margaritifer GflntherJ alleged 
•Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vol. 4, p. 468, 1862. 
to have come from Borneo (evidently wrongly), as a synonym of the Mediter¬ 
ranean Solea lascaris . 
Norman has examined the type of Solea indica Gflnther' and 
1 Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vol. 4, p. 474, 1862 (type locality s "Madras"). 
—Da^, Fishes of India, pt. 3, p. 426, 1877; Fauna British India, Fishes, 
vol, 2, p. 446, 1889. 
found it to be a wrongly labeled example of Achiru3 lineatus (Linnaeus). 
