90. MULLID^E UPENEUS. 5G5 



Upenetts, the head rather shorter. One species known. (Latin, mulhis. 

 the ancient name of Mullus barbatus, from /.*u,Uo<r, lip ; hence " mullet," 

 a fish with thick lips.) 



891. M. barbatus L. Surmullet. 



lied, with three yellow longitudinal stripes. Body oblong, moderately 

 compressed; snout blunt, its profile very obliquely decurved; mouth 

 horizontal, small ; maxillary scarcely reaching front of orbit ; diarn- 

 ter of eyes about equalling the slightly concave interorbital space. 

 Head 3 ; depth 3|. D. VII-I, 9 ; A. II, 6 ; Lat. 1. 36, its mucous tubes 

 branching into a network on each scale. European ; this or some simi- 

 lar species said to have been once taken at New York (Gill). One of 

 the choicest food-fishes of the Mediterranean. 



(Linn. Syst. Nat. : Mullus barbatus and surmuletus Gtinther, i, 401 : Mullus, sp. incog. 

 Gill, Eept. U. S. Fish Com. 1872-:}, 804.) 



293. UPENEUS Cuvier. 



Goat Fishes. 

 (Cuvier, Eegne Anim. eel. 2, ii, 1829: type Mullus barberinus Lac.) 



Body oblong, compressed; mouth moderate, nearly horizontal, low, 

 the jaws subequal; eye large, high, posterior; opercle short, deep, with 

 a posterior spine; jaws with rather strong teeth, in one series, or in a 

 narrow baud; no teeth on vomer or palatines; lips well developed; 

 barbels nearly as long as head ; scales very large, somewhat ctenoid ; 

 lateral line continuous, its tubes ramifying on each scale; head covered 

 with large scales; first dorsal with about 7 spines; anal with 2, the first 

 very short ; caudal fin forked. Species numerous in the tropical seas. 

 (An old name of some fish ; from u-^, upper lip.) 

 a. Teeth, in the upper jaw in move than one series. (Pseudupeneus* Bleeker.) 



92. U. maculatus (Bloch) Cuv. & Val. Goat Fish. 



Red; sides of head with bluish longitudinal lines; three black blotches 

 along the lateral line; each scale with a blue spot at its base; body 

 oblong, moderately compressed, tapering backwards from occiput; ven- 

 tral outline nearly straight ; snout long and rather sharp ; mouth ter- 

 minal, small ; maxillary not reaching orbit ; eyes situated backwards and 

 high up; head 3; depth 4. D. VII-I, 8; A. II, G; Lat. 1. 30, high up 

 and following the curve of the back. Y. 10 + 14. West Indies ; occa- 

 sional on our coast. 



(Mullus maculatus Blocli,Ichthyol, 1797, (af. 348; Giinther, i, 408; MitWtypeneus macu- 

 latus Poey, Synopsis, 1868, 307 : Hypeneus maculatus Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. v, 49.) 



* Pseudupcneus Bleeker, Poiss. Cote Guinee, 1862, 56: type Upeneus praycnsis Cuv. & 

 Val. (Tpevd o, false; Upeneus)=MuUhyj)eneus Poey, 1868. 



