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OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Number 159 
Family Pieuronectidae 
Genus Pleuronichthys Girard 1854a 
t Pleuronichthys veliger (Jordan in Jordan and Gilbert 1920) 
Figure 102 
Selected Synonymy & References 
t Zororhombus veliger Jordan in Jordan and Gilbert 1920:39, pi. 27. 
t Zororhombus veliger Jordan: Jordan 1921a:264, pi. 33 (restoration), 
t Zororhombus veliger Jordan: Jordan 1921b:463, two unnumbered figs, 
t Pleuronichthys {Zororhombus) veliger { Jordan): David 1943:167-168, text-fig. 37. 
t Zororhombus veliger Jordan: Chanet and Schultz 1994:102. 
Type Specimen : f Zororhombus veliger Jordan in Jordan and Gilbert 1920, holotype, CAS 70003 (SU 230, 
195), right counterpart 
Type Locality : Lompoc, Monterey Formation, Late Miocene, Santa Barbara County. 
Referred Specimen : SU 21, whereabouts unknown. 
Referred Specimens in David (1943) : LACM (CIT) 10216, left counterpart (text-fig. 37). 
Remarks : Chanet and Schultz (1994:102) mentioned, without comment, that f Zororhombus veliger Jordan 
was present in the Monterey Formation (Middle Miocene) of California, but they did not cite David 
(1943), thus we treat David as the last reviser. 
Figure 102. f Pleuronichthys veliger (Jordan in Jordan and Gilbert 1920), holotype, CAS 70003 (from color image provided by 
CAS); scale bar equals 3 cm. 
