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Mugil
Temporal range: Early Oligocene to Present[1]
Mugil cephalus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Mugiliformes Family: Mugilidae Genus: Mugil Mugil is one genus among 17 genera containing all together about 80 species of ray-finned fish of the family Mugilidae commonly known as mullet. The genus Mugil contains 17 species.
Species
- Banana mullet, (Mugil bananensis)
- Broussonnet's mullet, (Mugil broussonnetii)
- Dwarf mullet, (Mugil curvidens)
- Fantail mullet, (Mugil gyrans)
- Galapagos mullet, (Mugil galapagensis)
- Hospe mullet, (Mugil hospes)
- Liseta mullet, (Mugil setosus)
- Liza, (Mugil liza )
- Mullet, (Mugil rammelsbergii)
- Narrowhead grey mullet, (Mugil capurrii)
- Parassi mullet, (Mugil incilis)
- Striped mullet, (Mugil cephalus)
- White mullet, (Mugil curema)
- Mugil gaimardianus
- Mugil platanus
- Mugil trichodon
Note that the species with common name Liza is in this genus Mugil, and not in the genus Liza as might be expected.
17 species in this genus are recorded in Fishbase (March 2007). (Links in the following table are to Fishbase entries for species)
Species name (2007) Common name Nominal species (historic) Mugil bananensis Banana mullet Myxus bananensis Pellegrin, 1927 Mugil broussonnetii Broussonnet's mullet Mugil broussonnetii Valenciennes, 1836; Myxus malayanus Herre, 1936 Mugil capurrii Narrowhead grey mullet Mugil monodi Chabanaud, 1926; Myxus capurrii Perugia, 1892 Mugil cephalus Striped mullet Mugil our Forsskål, 1775; Mugil provensalis Risso, 1810; Mugil tang Bloch, 1794; Mugil japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1845; Mugil lineatus Valenciennes, 1836; Mugil mexicanus Steindachner, 1876; Myxus pacificus Steindachner, 1900; Mugil ashanteensis Bleeker, 1863; Mugil albula Linnaeus, 1766; Myxus superficialis Klunzinger, 1870; Mugil dobula Günther, 1861; Mugil gelatinosus Klunzinger, 1872; Mugil grandis Castelnau, 1879; Mugil hypselosoma Ogilby, 1897; Mugil muelleri Klunzinger, 1880; Mugil mulleri Klunzinger, 1880; Mugil occidentalis Castelnau, 1873; Mugil crenilabis our Forsskål, 1775; Mugil cephalotus Valenciennes, 1836; Mugil cephalus ashanteensis Bleeker, 1863; Myxus caecutiens Günther, 1876; Myxus barnardi Gilchrist & Thompson, 1914; Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 Mugil curema White mullet Myxus harengus Günther, 1861; Mugil metzelaari Chabanaud, 1926; Mugil petrosus Valenciennes, 1836; Mugil curema Valenciennes, 1836 Mugil curvidens Dwarf mullet Mugil curvidens Valenciennes, 1836; Mugil longicauda Guitart Manday & Alvarez-Lajonchere, 1976 Mugil gaimardianus Mugil gaimardianus Desmarest, 1831 Mugil galapagensis Galapagos mullet Mugil galapagensis Ebeling, 1961 Mugil gyrans Fantail mullet Querimana gyrans Jordan & Gilbert, 1884 Mugil hospes Hospe mullet Mugil hospes Jordan & Culver, 1895 Mugil incilis Parassi mullet Mugil guentheri Steindachner, 1866; Mugil incilis Hancock, 1830 Mugil liza Liza Mugil lebranchus Poey, 1860; Mugil liza Valenciennes, 1836 Mugil platanus Mugil platanus Günther, 1880 Mugil rammelsbergii Mullet Mugil rammelsbergii Tschudi, 1846 Mugil setosus Liseta mullet Mugil setosus Gilbert, 1892 Mugil trichodon Mugil trichodon Poey, 1875 References
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2007-12-25.
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