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FLOUNDER

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 548 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLOUNDER , a See also:

common See also:term for See also:flat-See also:fish. The name is also more specially given to certain varieties, according to See also:local usage. Thus the Pleuronectes flesus is the common flounder of See also:English terminology, found along the coasts of See also:northern See also:Europe from the See also:Bristol Channel to See also:Iceland. It is particularly partial to fresh See also:water, ascending the See also:Rhine as' See also:fat as See also:Cologne. It rarely exceeds a length of 12 in. or a See also:weight of 14 lb. In See also:American terminology the See also:principal fish of the name are the " summer flounders " or " deep-See also:sea flounders," also known in See also:America as " See also:plaice " (Paralichthys See also:dentatus), as See also:long as 3 ft. and as heavy as 15 lb; the four-spotted flounders " (Paralichthys oblongus) ; the "common" or "See also:winter" flounder (Pseudopleuronectes amerkanus); the " See also:diamond flounder " (Hysopsetta guttulata) ; and the " See also:pole flounder " (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus).

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