. Histories of new food fishes [microform] : I. the Canadian plaice. Plie; Poisson (Aliment); Poissons; Plaice; Fish as food; Fishes. AmonK the flatfishes the plaice is like the halibut and unlike the Houmier and its relatives in having a very large mouth with well deveâpt-d teeth, the mouth indeed being so large that its angle is well back to the middle of the eye. Unlike the halibut it has along the middle of the body an almost straight 'lateral' line, which is without any arch near the head, and it differs from both the halibut and turbot m having the end of the tail rounded instead of conc
. Histories of new food fishes [microform] : I. the Canadian plaice. Plie; Poisson (Aliment); Poissons; Plaice; Fish as food; Fishes. AmonK the flatfishes the plaice is like the halibut and unlike the Houmier and its relatives in having a very large mouth with well deveâpt-d teeth, the mouth indeed being so large that its angle is well back to the middle of the eye. Unlike the halibut it has along the middle of the body an almost straight 'lateral' line, which is without any arch near the head, and it differs from both the halibut and turbot m having the end of the tail rounded instead of concave or h.|llow. Finally the plaice differs from the window-pane, which also has a rounded tail and a large mouth, in having the eyes on the right side of the body instead of on the left side, and in not h-ivmg a distinct arch in the 'lateral' line near the head. It alone of our flatfishes has these three characters combinedâ/arj?c mouth almost stratght lateral line, and rounded tail (see figure 2) The Ne«rly straight lateral lioe. Rounded tail -I'laico fifteen inches long from Le Have bank, off Xova Scotia. After II. â nouth L. Todd. colour, of the plaice is a uniform light or dark reddish-brown, although there is a series of from three to five dark spots along each side of the body. These are, however, usually distinct only in the young (see figure I), but occasionally they are to be seen in quue large and old fish. Another character that is familiar to any one that handles the fish is the very distinct roughness of the sur- face, which is caused by the small, but sharp teeth on the free edge of each scale (.see figure 11). â ^'mc':M':^ Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Huntsman, A. G. (Archibald Gowanlock), 1883-1976?; Biological Board of Canada. Toronto : University of Toro
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