90. MULLID.E UPEXEUS. 
5G5 
the liead rather shorter. One species known. (Latin, 
the ancient name of 3hdlus harhatus, from fj.uUu^, lip ; hence ‘‘ mullet,” 
a fish with thick lix)S.) 
891. M. barbaJus L. — Surmullet. 
lied, with three yellow longitudinal stripes. Body ohlong, moderately 
compressed 5 snout blunt, its profile very obliquely decurved; mouth 
horizontal, small ; maxillary scarcely reaching front of orbit ; diam- 
ter of eyes about equalling the slightlj^ concave interorbital space. 
Head 3^ ; depth 3§. D. VII-I, 9 5 A. II, G ; 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. 
(Liun. Syst. N'at. : Mullus barhatus and surmuletus Gunther, i, iOl: J/«ZZus, sp. iucog. 
Gill, Eept. U. S. Fish Com. 1872-3, 804.) 
293.— UPEi^'EUS Cuvier. 
Goat Fishes. 
(Cuvier, Regne Anim. ed. 2, ii, 1829: type Mulltts barherinus 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 band; 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. §iiecies numerous in the tropical seas. 
(An old name of some fish; from upper lip.) 
a. Teetli in tlie upper jaw iii move than one series. (Pscudiqyeneus* Bleeker.) 
892. E. maculatus (Bloch) Cnv. & Yal.— Goat Fish. 
Bed; 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. 
(Mulliis maculatus Bloch, Ichthyol, 1797, (af. 348; Giinther, i, 408; Mitlllnjpeneus macu- 
laius Poey, S^mopsis, 18G8, 307 : Hijpeneus maculatus Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. v, 49.) 
* Pseudupcneus Bleeker, Poiss. Cote Guinee, 1862, 56: type Upeneus prayensis Cnv. & 
VaJ. {ipEvdoi, false; Upeneus)— Mullhypeneus Poey, 1868. 
