. Fishes. Fishes. 698 Suborder Heterosomata brill, Bothus rhombus, is a common fish of southern Europe, deep-bodied and covered with smooth scales. Very similar but much smaller in size is the half translu- cent speckled flounder of our Atlantic coast (Lophopsetta macu- lata), popularly known as window-pane. This species is too small to have much value as food. Another species, similar to the brill in technical characters but very different in appear- ance, is the turbot, Scophthalmus maximus, of Europe. This large flounder has a very broad body, scaleless but covered with warty tubercles. It
. Fishes. Fishes. 698 Suborder Heterosomata brill, Bothus rhombus, is a common fish of southern Europe, deep-bodied and covered with smooth scales. Very similar but much smaller in size is the half translu- cent speckled flounder of our Atlantic coast (Lophopsetta macu- lata), popularly known as window-pane. This species is too small to have much value as food. Another species, similar to the brill in technical characters but very different in appear- ance, is the turbot, Scophthalmus maximus, of Europe. This large flounder has a very broad body, scaleless but covered with warty tubercles. It reaches a weight of seventy pounds and has a high value as a food-fish. There is but one species of tur- bot and it is found in Europe only, on sandy bottoms from. Fig. 603.—Wide-eyed Flounder, Syacium papillosum Linnaeus. Pensacola, Fla. Norway to Italy. In a turbot of twenty-three pounds weight Buckland found a roe of five pounds nine ounces, with 14,311,260 eggs. The young retains its symmetrical condition for a relatively long period. No true turbot is found in America and none in the Pacific. Other European flounders allied to the turbot and brill are Zeugopterus punctatus; the European whifl, Lepido- rhombus V'hiff-jagonis; the topknot, Phrynorhombus regius; the lantern-flounder, Arnoglossus laterna, and the tongue-fish, Euci- iharus linguatula, the last two of small size and feeble flesh. In the wide-eyed or peacock flounders, Platophrys podas in Europe, Platophrys lunatus, etc., in America, Platophrys mancus in Polynesia, the eyes in the old males are very far apart, and the changes due to age and sex are greater than in any other genera. The species of this group are highly variegated and lie on the sand m the tropical seas. Numerous small. 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 Jordan, D
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