Myxus

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

Myxus 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 Myxus contains four species.

Species

• Freshwater mullet — Myxus capensis
• Sand grey mullet — Myxus elongatus
• Myxus multidens
• Myxus petardi

4 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)
Myxus capensis	Freshwater mullet	Mugil euronotus Smith, 1846; Mugil capensis Valenciennes, 1836; Trachystoma euronotus (Smith, 1846)
Myxus elongatus	Sand grey mullet	Myxus elongatus Günther, 1861
Myxus multidens		Trachystoma multidens Ogilby, 1888
Myxus petardi		Mugil petardi Castelnau, 1875