STRIPED RED MULLET 



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ACANTHOPTERYG1L 



PERCIDJE. 



STRIPED RED MULLET. 



Miillus surmuletus, LINNJEUS. BLOCH, pt. ii. pi. 57. 



,, ,, Cuv. et. VALENC. Hist, des Poiss. t. iii. p. 433. 



Striped Surmullet, VEST*. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 368, 



pi. 64. 



DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 12. 



,, ,, ,, ,, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 216, sp. 158. 



,, ,, ,, ,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 337. 



Generic Characters. Body thick, oblong ; profile of the head approaching to 

 a vertical line ; scales large, deciduous ; two dorsal fins widely separated, the rays 

 of the first spinous, those of the second flexible ; teeth on the lower jaw and pa- 

 late only; two cirri at the symphysis of the lower jaw ; branchiostegous rays 4. 



THE characters which distinguish the two species of Red 

 Mullet common in the Mediterranean, both entitled to a 

 place in the Catalogue of British Fishes, have been long 

 known, and figures of both are given in Willughby's Historic, 

 Piscium, plate S. 7, figs. 1 and 2. One species, the well- 

 known Striped Red Mullet, is of frequent occurrence along 

 the extended line of our southern coast from Cornwall to 



