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THE correction from Mr. Green, H.M. Inspector of Irish Fisheries, which is published in NATURE of November 20 (p. 56), and which announces that the specimens he at first believed to be the young of the common sole proved to be really the young of Pleuronectes cynoglossus, is one more instance of the great importance of specific identification in the investigation of fishery problems. This was a mistake not merely as to the species, but as to the genus of the specimens in question. And yet it is by no means difficult, after a little experience, to distinguish the genus Solea at any stage of development from all other genera of Pleuronectidæ. It is much more difficult to distinguish from one another the various species of Gadus in their early stages. But in order to ascertain the life-history of the various species of sea-fish used as food, we must trace each with absolute certainty from one environment to another through the successive stages of its existence.
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CUNNINGHAM, J. The Common Sole. Nature 43, 104 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/043104a0
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