STKirKl) UK]) MULLET 



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AVANrUOPTERYGU. 



PlinClDIE. 



STRIPED RED MULLET. 



Mullus surmuletus, Linnaeus. Block, pt. ii. pL 57. 



,, ,, Cuv. et Valenc. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. iii. p. 433. 



,, ,, Striped Surmullet, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. lii. p. 



pL 64. 

 Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 12. 

 „ „ „ ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 216, sp. 158. 



368. 



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 Historia 

 Pisci'uni, plate S. 7, figs. 1 and 2. One species, the well- 



