Chaenomugil

Chaenomugil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Mugiliformes
Family:	Mugilidae
Genus:	Chaenomugil

Chaenomugil is one of 17 genera containing all together about 80 species of ray-finned fish of the family Mugilidae commonly known as mullet. The genus Chaenomugil is monotypic (with a single species).

Species

• Snouted mullet (Chaenomugil proboscideus)

Only one species in this genus is recorded in Fishbase (March 2007). (Links in the following table are to Fishbase entries for species)

Species name (2007)	Common name	Nominal species (historic)
Chaenomugil proboscideus	Snouted mullet	Mugil proboscideus Günther, 1861