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The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group : its zoology, botany, ethnology and general structure based on collections made by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.
Pleuronectidæ. — Platophrys, Swains. — Platophrys pantherinus, Rüpp
Pleuronectidæ.
Platophrys, Swains.
Platophrys pantherinus, Rüpp.
Platophrys-pantherinus, Rüpp., Atlas Fische, p. 121, pl. xxxi' fig. 1; Day, Fishes of India, p. 425, pl. xcii., figs. 3 and 4.
The small specimen obtained differs from Day's figure (fig. 3) by having the anterior dorsal rays free for half their length, and by having white spots on the vertical and caudal fins, a feature however mentioned in the description. In addition, the vertical fins have small black spots at intervals near the base of the rays, apparently similar to P. nebularis, Jord. and Gilb.* In April, 1898, I obtained P. pantherinus at Lord Howe Island.
* Jordan and Gilbert—Proc U.S. Nat. Mus., vii., 1884, p. 31.