THE FISHES OF SAMOA. 217 



Family MUGILID.€. 



MUGIL Linnaeus. 



315. Mugil cephalus Linnieus. Hawaii; Eaiatea; Taliiti: New Guinea ( .Maoleay ) : Xukahiva and 



Solomon Is. (Seale) ; Mediterranean; Atlantic coasts of United State.*; Panama; .southern 

 California; Japan; Red Sea. 

 {Mufjil ceur Forsk^l; Mugif irpkalotui' Cuvier & Yalencieiiiies.) 



316. Mugil caldwelli Fowler. Samoa. 



.Viniil i-aMwcUi Fowler, Proc. Ar. Nat. Sci. Phila. liHIO. .W4, Samoa. 



This species, not recognized by us in Samoa, is probably based on the young of some other species, 

 perhaps the common mullet of Oceania, which we have been unable to separate from the European 

 Miif/il rephalns or the Asiatic yfitgll (mr. 



317. Mugil broussoneti Cuvier & Valenciennes. Cook Is. 



318. Mugil tong-ae Giinther. Tonga. 



319. Mugil planiceps Cuviei' A Valenciennes. Guam; Ea,st Indies. 



320. Mugil kelaarti Giinther. Tahiti; Raiatea ( Seale ) ; East Indies. 



321. Mugil kandavensis Giinther. Kandavu; Fiji. 



322. Mugil perusi Cuvier & Valenciennes. Vanicolo. 



323. Mugil argenteus Quoy & Gaimard. Samoa (Giinther); .-iustralia. 

 This species, recorded from Samoa, was not seen by us. 



324. Mugil sundanensis Bleeker. New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



LIZA Jordan & Swain. 



325. Xiiza melinoptera (Cuvier & Valenciennes). A/a; Fue'afa. Vanicolo; Tonga; Samoa. 



This mullet, known by the honey-colored (/(f'A;;) caudal tin and by the black pectoral, is very 

 abundant about Samoa, and reaches a large size. About 20 specimens were taken. The namemrfin- 

 ojilera (not iitdanoptera) refers to the yellow vertical fins, not to the black pectoral. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia 15 inches long: Very pale olive, silvery below; faint narrow 

 lines along series of scales; lips pale; first dorsal pale gray, the spines dark; soft dorsal dusky, yellowish 

 at tip; cauclai pale soiled 3=ellow; anal blackish, yellowish at tip, the last rays colorless; ventral pure 

 whitish; pectoral mostly deep sooty black, the lower rays grayish. 



Another specimen from Apia, young, with scales 26-10, anal iii, 9, had first dorsal, second dorsal, 

 and most of pectoral jet black; ventral blackish at base, edge yellowish; caudal and anal blackish 

 washed with deep yellow, edge blackish; iris dark brown. Life colons of young specimens (scales 26) 

 from Pago Pago, back with two or three j-ellowish cross blotches; pectoral black; caudal bright yellow, 

 even in very young examples;' anal yellow; ventral tipped with pale yellow. 



326. Liza cseruleomaculata Lacepcde. .liKie: ' And'diiahif;!. Guam: Xew Guinea; Samoa; East 



Indies. 

 Miu/il cH-rukomandatus LacepC'de, Hist. Xat. Poi.«s., v, 385, 1S03, Mauritius. 



.Viigil a.riUaris Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hi.^t. Nat. Poiss., xi, 131, 1836. Mauritius, New Guinea, (iiinther. Cat., 

 in, 444. Scale, Bishop Mu.s. 1901, 66, Guam, Giinther. Fische der Siidsfu, 216, lai. c.\x, fig. B, Samoa, Red l?pa, 

 Seychelle.'i. Agvnosiomus dorsalis Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. JIus., vii, 102, 1877, Samoa; very young. 

 Life colors of a specimen from Apia, silvery, darker above; no stripes; fins pale; caudal dark at 

 tip; a dark axillary spot; pe toral dull yellowish; iris silvery brownish. Scales 39; anal ni, 9. 



This is a large mullet, recognizable by the blue spot at the base of the pectoral. It 

 about Samoa, where about 2.5 specimens were preserved. 



327. Liza troscheli (Bleeker). Aim. Samoa; Xew Guinea; East Indies. 

 Miiflit Irosclielii Bleeker, Nat. Tijd., xvi, 277, Java. Giinther, Cut., in, 448, Ceylon, Borneo. 

 Mufiil bornecmis Bleeker, Nat. Tijd., II, 1S51, 201, Ea.st Indies. Kner, Novara Fische. JJ.s. Tahiti. G 



HI, 448. Giinther, Fische der Siidsce, 218, Tahiti. 

 Mugil rowpirg^u:^, Giinther, Fische der .Svidsee. 217. taf. cxxtii. fig. a. Samoa; not type. 

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