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to M u g i 1 , but lacking the adipose eyelid. (After Jordan & 



Evermann) 



183 Mugil cephalus Linnaeus 



Striped Mullet 



Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. X, I, 316, 17.jS, Europe; Jordan 

 & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus, 263, 1884; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 

 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 811, 1896, pi. CXXVI, fig. 343, 1900; Bean, 52d 

 Ann. Kept. N. Y. State Mus. 103, 1900. 



Mugil albula Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. XII, 520, 1766, Charleston, S. C; 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 403, 1883; Bean, 19th 

 Kept. Comm. Fish. N. Y. 272, pi. XXI, fig. 26, 1890. 



Mugil lineatus Mitchill, Cuvier & Valenciennes. Hist. Nat. Poiss. XI, 96, 

 1836, New York; De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 144, pi. 15, fig. 42, 1842, 

 New York; Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass. 39, pi. XVI, fig. 4, 1867. 



Body fusiform, elongate, stout, its greatest width contained 

 one and three fourths times in length of head and equal to 

 length of ventral fin, greatest depth of body one fourth of total 

 length without caudal; snout narrow and somewhat pointed, its 

 length about one fifth of length of head, its profile scarcely 

 more convex than profile of lower jaw; interorbitai space little 

 convex, its width one half length of head; thickness of upper 

 lip scarcely more than one third of length of premaxillary; space 

 between the mandibles oblanceolate, its greatest width about 

 one fifth of its length; eyes covered by an adipose membrane 

 leaving a free space only about as wide as the pupil; length of 

 head contained three and one half to four times in total length 

 without caudal; eye about two sevenths as long as the head; 

 teeth in upper jaw in a rather broad band, the outer row slightly 

 enlarged, teeth in lower jaw similar but much smaller; scales 

 smaller than in M. c u r e m a , about 24 or 25 rows of scales 

 between tip of snout and origin of spinous dorsal, some scales 

 on top of head slightly enlarged, soft dorsal and anal fins almost 

 scaleless; origin of spinous dorsal midway between tip of snout 

 and base of middle caudal rays, about over the middle of the 

 ventral, base of spinous dorsal one third as long as the 

 head, first spine longest, one half as long as the head, last 

 spine one half as long as the first, interspace between dorsals 

 about one half length of head, upper margin of soft dorsal 

 deeply concave, base of the fin a little more than one third of 



