90. MULLID^ UPENEUS. 565 



Vpeneus, tlie head rather shorter. One species known. (Latin, muJlus. 

 the ancient name of Mullus harhatits, from /j-ukkaq, lip ; hence " mullet," 

 a fish with thick lips.) 

 §91. M. barbatus L,.—SunnuUct. 



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

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

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

 ter of eyes about equalling the slightly concave interorbital space. 

 Head 3 J ; depth 3§. D. VII-I, 9 ; A. II, 6 ; Lat. 1. 30, 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. Nat. : Mullus barhafus and sunnuletus Guutber, i, 401 : Mullus, sp. iuco<?. 

 Gill, Kept.V. S. Fish Com. 1872-:5, 804.) 



293.— rPE]\ElJS Cuvier. 

 Goat Fishes. 



(Cuvier, Eegue Anira. ed. 2, ii, 1829: type Mullus 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. Species numerous in the tropical seas. 

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

 a. Teeth in the upper jaw in moie than one series. {Pscudupencus* Bleeker.) 



§92. U. maculatniS (Bloch) Cuv. &. Yah— 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. V. 10 + 14. West Indies ; occa- 

 sional on our coast. 



(Mullus maculatus Bloch, Ichthyol, 1797, (af. 348; Giinther, i, 408; MuUhypencus macu- 

 laius Poey, Synopsis, 18G8, 307 : Hijpeneus maculatus Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. v, 49.) 



* Pseudupcneus Bleeker, Poiss. Cote Guin<?e, 1862, 56: type Upeneus praycnsis Cuv. & 

 Val. (^£tii5o5, false; Upeneus)=Mullhypeneu8FoGj,1868. 



