1. MUGIL. 



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22. Mugil brasiliensis. 



? Curema, Marcgr. p. 181 ; Pisun. p. 70. 



]Mugil brasiliensis, Agass. in Sjnx, Pise. Bras. p. 234. tab. 72 (not good). 

 ? Mugil incilis, Hancock in Lond. Quart. Juurn. Sc. 1830, p. 127. 

 Mugil curema, Cuv. ^ Val. xi. p. 87 ; Gay, Hist. adl. Zool. ii. p. 259. 

 ? Mugil petrosus, Cm. 8i Val. xi. p. 89 ; Gay, I. c. p. 200. 



D. 4 I i.. A. |. L. lat. 36-38. L. transv. 12-13. Vert. 11/13. 



The height of the body is contained four times and a half to four 

 times and four-fifths in the total length, the length of the head five 

 times. The snout is moderately 

 broad, not convex, with the lower 

 profile ascending in the same de- 

 gree as the upper descends ; the 

 interorbital space is slightly con- 

 vex, its width being contained 

 twice and a third in the length of 

 the head. Upper lip rather thick. 

 The angle made by the two man- 

 dibulary bones is a right one ; the 

 praeorbital tapers posteriorly, has 

 the anterior margin finely serrated, 

 and covers the maxillarj', so that 

 only a very narrow portion of it is 

 visible on the side of the snout. 

 Eyes hidden anteriorly and poste- 

 riorly by a broad adipose mem- 

 brane ; nostrils rather distant from 

 each other, the posterior situated 

 on the middle between the orbit and the extremity of the snout. 

 The space at the chin, between the manchbles and the interopercula, 

 is elongate, cuneiform. The second dorsal and the anal are enveloped 

 in small scales. There are twenty-one scales between the snout and 

 the anterior dorsal. The first two dorsal spines are more than half 

 as long as the head. The ninth or tenth, the eleventh or twelfth, 

 and the twenty-third scale of the lateral line correspond to the 

 extremity of the pectoral fin and to the origin of the two dorsal fins. 

 The root of the pectoral is above the middle of the body, and the 

 ventral is inserted midway between pectoral and spinous dorsal; 

 pectoral shorter than the head ; caudal deeply emarginate. Shining 

 stripes along the series of scales ; often a blackish spot superiorly at 

 the base of the pectoral. The soft dorsal and the caudal with blackish 

 margins. 



Atlantic coasts of Tropical America. 

 a-c. Half-grown. Playa Vicente (Vera Cruz). From M. SaUe's 



Collection. ■ 

 cl. Half-grown: bad state. West Indies. Purchased of Mr. Scrivener. 

 e. Fine specimen. St. Domingo. Purchased of Mr. Cuming. 

 f~q. Adult, half-grown, and young: skins. Jamaica. From Dr. 



Pamell's Collection. 



M. brasi'iensis. 



