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Mugil cephalotus Gunther. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) XX. 1867, p. 64 (name only). 



Afugil oeur Klunzinger, Abhandl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien XX. 1870, p. 829. 



Mugil cephalotus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. IV. 1873, p. 100. Ibid. p. 143. 



Mugil jap onicus Bleeker, ibid. p. 143. 



Mugil cephalotus Bleeker, Poiss. de Madagascar 1875, p. 45. 



Mugil oeur Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 353. 



Mugil cephalotus Bleeker, Verb. Akad. Amsterdam XVIII. 1879, Poiss. de Chine, p. 2. 



Mugil jap onicus Bleeker, ibid. Poiss. du Japon, p. 17. 



MugiL cephalotus Gunther, Challenger Exp. VI. Shore-Fishes 1880, p. 33. 



Mugil dobula Gunther, Fische Siidsee II. Journ. Mus. Godeffr. 1881, p. 214. 



Mugil oeur Klunzinger, Fische d. roth. Meeres 1884, p. 132. 



Mugil ottr Steindachner & Doderlein, Fische Japan's, IV. Denkschr. Akad. Wien 



LIII. 1887, p. 266. 

 Mugil cephalotus Nystrom, Bihang K. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. XIII. Afd. IV. 



No. 4, 1887, p. 38. 



Mugil oeur Day, Fishes of Brit. India II. 1889, p. 348. 

 Mugil cephalotus Sauvage, Poiss. Madagascar, 1891, p. 402. 



Mugil cephalus Evermann & Jenkins, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XIV. (1891) 1892, p. 136. 

 Mugil cephalus Jordan & Evermann, Fish. North & Middle America I. 1896, p. 811. 

 Mugil oeur Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1897, p. 70. 

 Mugil hypselosoma Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales XXII. 1897, p. 74. 

 Mugil dobula Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wien, LXX. 1900, p. 501. 

 Mugil our Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXIII. 1901, p. 744. 

 Mugil oeur Jordan & Evermann, ibid. XXV. 1902, p. 332. 

 'Mugil cephalus Jenkins, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XXII. 1902 (1904), p. 438. 

 Mugil cephalus Jordan & Scale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Wash. XXIX. 1905, p. 521. 

 Mugil cephalus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. XXIII. (1903) 



1905, P. 139- 



Mugil cephalus Tanaka, Fishes of Japan III. 1911, p. 50. 

 Mugil cephalus Me Culloch, Check-list of fish of N. S. Wales II. 1919, p. 38. 



D'.IV; D 2 .L8; A. III. 8; P. 2.15 16; V. 1.5; L.I. 37 40; 

 L.tr. 14 15. 



Rostro-dorsal profile nearly horizontal, lower profile strongly 

 curved. Height, which is conspicuously less than length of 

 head, somewhat more or less than 5 (in large specimens 5 2 / 3 

 to nearly 6) in total length, 4Y 2 4 3 /4 * n length without caudal. 

 Eye more or less than 4 in head, twice or somewhat more 

 in postorbital part of head ; gelatinous eyelid broadly deve- 

 loped anteriorly and posteriorly reaching to pupil; interorbital 

 space nearly flat, conspicuously broader than eye. Snout shorter 

 than eye, somewhat pointed but broadly rounded, when seen 

 from above; its frontborder formed by the upperlip, which is 

 rather thin. Free border of both lips with conspicuous yellowish 

 ciliae (teeth). Maxillary not visible when mouth is closed or 

 only a narrow stripe of its posterior part. Praeorbital scaly, 

 neither notched nor bent, its lower and posterior border ser- 



