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Mtjgil DOBULA. ' 



Mugil dobula, Gnth. Catai. Fish, iii. p, 420, 1861 and 

 Fisch. Sudsee, p. 214, pi. cxx. f. A. 1876 ; Casteln. Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1878, iii. p. 387 ; Macl. Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N.S. Wales, 1880, iv. p. 415 ; Ogilby, Edi. Fish. N.S. 

 Wales, p. 118, pi. xxxi. 1893. Mugil waigiensis (not Quoy 

 Gaimard) Casteln. Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict. 1872, i. 

 p. 140. Mugil grandis, Casteln. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, 1878, 'iii. p. 386; Macl. I.e. p. 412. Mugil cephalotus 

 (not Cuv. Val.) Johnston, Proc. Eoj. Soc. Tas. 1882, 

 p. 122. 



D. iv. i 8. A. iii 8. Sc. 40—42/14—15. 



Length of head 3-3% to 4^^, depth of body 3f to 3^ 

 in the total length ; width of head If to If, of the 

 interorbital region, which is almost flat 2 to 2f, diameter 

 of eye 3f to 4^ in the length of the head ; snout 

 very broad and obtuse, as long as to one fourth of a 

 diameter longer than the eye ; maxillary longer than the 

 diameter of the eye, reaching to or nearly to the vertical 

 from its anterior margin ; preorbital narrow, its distal end 

 rounded and about half as wide as the pupil, entire or 

 minutely serrated on the posterior portion of the lower and 

 the hinder margins \ 68 to 74 gill-rakers on the lower branch 

 of the anterior arch ; body rather stout, not much com- 

 pressed, the dorsal profile but little convex, much less so than 

 the ventral. The origin of the spinous dorsal is midway 

 between the base of the caudal and the extremity of the 

 snout ; the spines are rather weak, the first slightly curved^ 

 as long as or a little longer than the second, its length If 

 to 2 in that of the head ; the third spine is considerably 

 shorter than the second, while the fourth is from 2 to 2|^ 

 in the length of the first ; the space between the origins of 

 the dorsal fins is as long as or a little longer than the head j 

 the anterior soft rays are as long as or shorter than the first 

 spine, and the outer border of the second dorsal is moderately 

 emarginate, the last ray being considerably produced ; the 

 anal fin originates slightly in advance of and does not extend 

 quite so far back as the second dorsal, its base being If to 

 1^ in its distance from the caudal ; the anterior soft rays 

 are as long as those of the dorsal, and when laid back do 

 not extend to the extremity of the last ray, which is more or 

 less produced ; the outer border of the fin is slightly 

 emarginate ; ventral inserted beneath the last third or fourth 

 of the pectoral, its length 1^ to If in that of the head» 

 and 2f to 2| in the distance between its origin and the 

 anal ; the outer ray a little longer than the second ; third, or 

 third and fourth pectoral rays the longest, not extending to 

 beneath the origin of the spinous dorsal, IJ to If in 



