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1985. Mugil brasiliensis Agassiz. Liza; Lebrancho; Queriman; Bhteback mullet; 



Fantail muUet. 



Cuba to Patagonia; West Indies; Brazil; Habana, probabl.y north to 

 Virginia. 



Mugil brasiliensis Agassiz, in Spix, Pise. Brasil., 134 (234 bv mispaging), 

 1829, pi. 72, Atlantic Ocean off Brazil. 



Mugil liza Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 1836, 61 

 (83), Brazil; Porto Rico; Maracaibo; Surinam; Martinique. 



Mugil lebranchus Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 260, plate 18, fig. 3 Cuba. 



Querimana gyrans Jordan and Gilbert, Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus., VII, 

 1884, 26, Key West; "the whirligig mullet" a little fish, with two 

 anal spines, now regarded as the young of Mugil, but if so of M. 

 brasiliensis as the scales are 28 to 29 (41 in Mugil cephalus). It is 

 recorded from Woods Hole and Fortress Monroe; in revolving 

 schools, perhaps mixed with the young of M. cephalus. 



1986. Mugil cephalus Linna;us. Common mullet; Striped mullet; C^/alo; 



Macho; Machuto; Lisa cabezuda; CaUifaver mrdlet. 

 Cosmopolitan; coasts of southern Europe and northern Africa; Atlantic 



coast of America from Cape Cod to Brazil; Pacific coast of America 



from Monterey to Chile; Hawaii; Japan; entering rivers. Perhaps 



more than one species included, but we fail to detect differences. 



If different, the American species must be known as Mugil albula of 



the Atlantic and Mugil mexicanus of the Pacific. 

 Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 316, Europe; based 



on Artedi. 

 Mugil albula Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. XII, 1766, 520, Charleston, S. C. 

 IMugil tang Bioch, Ichtliyologia, 1794, 171, Africa. 

 tMugil plumieri Bloch, loc. cit., 173, St. Vincent; on a drawing by 



Plumier. 

 Mugil lineatus Mitchill, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 



XI, 1836, 71 (96), New York. 

 Mugil ramrnelsbergii Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Ichth., 1845, 20, Peru. 

 Mugil berlandicri Girard, C S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., 1859, 20, pi, 



10, figs. 1 to 4, St. Jo.sephs Island, Indianola, Brazos Santiago; 



Brazos; Galveston; all on coast of Texas. 

 Mugil guentherii Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phiia., XXI, 1863, 169, 



western coast of Central America; not of Stcindarhner. 

 Mugil mexicanus Steindachncr, Ichth. Beitr., Ill, 1875, 58, Acapulco, 



Mexico. 



Genu.s 667. QUERIMANA Jordan and Gilbert. White mullets. (Soft dor- 

 sal and anal closely scaled.) 

 Querimana Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 588 

 {Myxus harengus Giinthcr, now regarded as the young of Mugil 

 curema). 



1987. Querimana curema (Cuvier and Valenciennes). While mullet; Blue- 



back mullet; Lisa; Lisa blanca. 

 Both coasts of America, Cape Cod to Brazil and Mazatlan to Chile. 

 Mugil curema Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 1836, 



64 (87), Brazil; Martiniciue; Cuba. 

 Mugil petrosus Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 65 (89), Brazil; 



Surinam; Gulf of Mexico; Cuba. 

 Myxus harengus Giinthcr, Cat., Ill, 1861, 467, Pacific coast of Central 



America; young examples with two anal spines. 



1988. Querimana incilis (Hancock). Trench mullet. 



Waters of Central America; Rio Chagres to Part and Bahia. 

 Mugil incilis Hancock, Quart. Jour. Sci., 1830, 127, Guiana. 

 Mugil giinlheri Steindachner, Ichth. Notizen, I, 1864, 12, Briti.sh 

 Guiana. 



1989. Querimana thoburni (.Jordan and Stark.s). 



Pacific coast of tropical .\merica, from Guatemala to Galapagos Islands. 

 Mugil thoburni Jordan and Starks, in Jordan and Evermann, Fishes 

 North and Mid. Amcr., 1896, 812, Galapagos Islands, 



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