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Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Measurements ok Miigil oeiir. 



55. Mugil carinatus (Khrenberg) Cuv. & \'al. 



1830. Mugil carinaliis (Ehrenberg) Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, p. 148; 

 Red Sea.— Day, Fish. Brit. India. 1888, Suppl., p. 800; Sea of India. 



Head 4 in length; depth 4.19; D. lY, 2, 7; A. Til, 9; P. 15; \'. I, 5 

 width of head 1.58 in its lengtli; e>'e 3.7 in head; interorbital space 

 2.79; snout 4; thirty-nine scales in a lateral series, thirteen scales in a 

 transverse series between origin of the dorsal and the middle of belly, 

 ele\en scales between origins of the dorsal and ventral; i:iectoral 1. 5 

 in head; ventral 1.73. 



Body elongate, compressed i)osteriorly, curvature of the dorsal 

 profile weaker than that of the ventral, median dorsal line keeled in 

 front and behind the spinous dorsal; head ratlier small, top more or 

 less convex; snout short, truncate in front; mouth subinferior, its 

 angle reaching a vertical through the posterior nostril, depth of the 

 mouth 2.66 in its width; upper li]) rather thick; lower jaw shorter than 

 the upi)er; the angle between the mandibulary bones obtuse; upper 

 jaw with a series of minute uniform teeth along the outer border, 

 lower jaw with a series of lleshy tubercles along its inner margin; 

 pre-orl)ital not scaled, wa\\', lower margin finely serrated; extremity 

 of maxillary visible; eyes moderate, anterior, with narrow adipose 

 eyelids; posterior nostril slit-like, nearer to tlie anterior nostril than 

 the orbit. 



Dorsal lins well si'parated; sjjinous dorsal inserted much nearer tip 



