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The Flat-tailed Mullet of the eastern States, plentiful and good-eating, but 

 not so esteemed as the next speeies. 



MUGIL DOBULA Giinther (Sea Mullet). 



Mugil (lohula Giinth., (Ud. Fish. Brit. Mus., iii, 1861, p. -120, tig. (head) and 

 Fische Siidsee, ii, 1877, p. 214, pi. exx, tig. A (head); Ogil., Edib. Fish. 

 N.S.W., 1893, p. 118, pi. xxxi; Stead, Edil). Fish. N.S.W., 1908, p. 40, pi. xii ; 

 Roughley, Fish. Aust., 1916, p. 37, pi. vii. 



Mugil waigiensis Cast., P.Z.S., Viet., i, 1872, p. 140 (not Quoy & Gaim.). 



Mugil grandis Cast., P.L.S., N.S.W., iii, 1879, p. 386. 



Mugil cephulotus Johnston, P.R.S., Tasm., 1883, p. 122 (not Cuv. & Val.). 



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Fig. 125. Muf/il (JolniJa. 



One of the most important food fishes of the Commonwealth, plentiful 

 thi'oughout the year. 



AGONOSTOMUS Bennett, 1830 (telfari). 



AGONOSTOMUS FORSTERI Bloch & Schneider (Fresh-water Mullet, 



Conmuri). 



