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1 6. Mugil seheli Forsk. 



Mugil seheli Forskal, Descr. Anini. I775i P- 73' 



} Mugil axillaris Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. nat. d. Poissons XI. 1836, p. 139. 



} Mugil parsia Bleaker, Nat, Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. III. 1852, p. 166 (nee Buchanan ? 



nee Cuvier & Valenciennes? '). 

 Mugil cylindricus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. IV. 1853, p. 266. 

 Mugil borbonicus Bleeker, ibid. XVI. 1858 — 1859, p. 279 (ncc C.V. nee Cant.); 



XVIII. 1859, p. 375 (nee C.V., nee Cant.). 

 Mugil axillaris Bleeker, ibid. XVI. 1858— 1859, p. 280. 

 Mugil axillaris Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. VIII, i860, Negende IJijdr. 



vischfauna Sumatra, p. 3, 

 Mugil axillaris Gunther, Cat, Brit. Mus. III. 1859 — 1861, p. 444. 

 Mugil bleekeri Gunther, ibid. p. 445. 

 Mugil decem-radiatus Giinther, ibid. p. 452, founded on M. parsia Blkr. which 



is according to Bleeker himself a synonym of M. axillaris. 

 Mugil seheli Klunzinger, Abh. zool.-bot. Ges, Wien XX. 1870, p. 827. — P'ische 



d. Rothen Meeres I, 1884, p. 132, 

 i^«o-//fl;jr///ar/j Gunther, Sildsee-Fische, Heft VI. 1881, p.216 (Description, not figure). 

 Mugil seheli Day, Fishes of India, 4°. 1878 — 1888, p. 355. 

 Mugil axillaris Sauvage, Hist. nat. d. Poissons de Madagascar, 1891, p. 397. 

 Mugil Bleekeri^ Max Weber, Zool. Ergebn. Reise N. O. Indian, Heft 2, 1894, p. 416. 

 Mugil axillaris Scale, Occ. Papers B. P. Bish. Mus. I. (1900) 1901, p, 66. 

 Mugil seheli Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische, 1 91 3, p. 140. 

 Mugil bleekeri de Beaufort, Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, Afl, 19, Amsterdam, 



1913, p, 107. 



D'.IV; D-. I. 8; A, III, 9; P. 2,16— 17; V. 1.5.; L.l. 38— 40; 

 L. tr. 14 — 15. 



Profile from first dorsal to snout slightly convex. Height 

 relatively decreasing with size offish 3,2 — 4 in length, 4.1 — 5 

 in length with caudal, about equal to length of head. Eye 

 3.4 to 4 in head, 1.7 to more than twice in postorbital part 

 of head ; without gelatinous eyelid, Interorbital space more 

 or less convex, 2 — 2.4 in length of head, more or less than 

 twice the diameter of the eye. Praeorbital scarcely emarginate 

 and indistinctly denticulated, covering the maxillary, which is 

 hidden when mouth is closed. Upper lip more or less fleshy, 

 smooth. Mandible with a double symphysial knob. Snout 

 obtuse, not depressed, convex, somewhat shorter than eye. 

 Origin of first dorsal about midway between end of snout and 

 base of caudal, in large specimens nearer to end of snout, it 

 is opposite to nth or 12th scale and separated from snout by 22 

 or 23, exceptionnally only by 20 — 21 scales. Height of dorsal 



l) Bleeker himself (Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. VIII. i860, Negende Bijdrage 

 vischfauna Sumatra p. 3) quotes it under the synonymy of M, axillaris. 



