Mugil
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| Mugil Temporal range: Early Oligocene to Present[1] |
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| Mugil cephalus | |
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| 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.
[edit] 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) |
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| 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 |
[edit] 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.
