STinrED RED MULLET. 



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A C/l NTHOPTER YGIl. 



PERCIDJE. 





STRIPED RED MULLET. 



Mullus surmuletus, Linn^us. Block, pt. ii. pi. 57. 



,, ,, Cuv. et Valenc. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t.iii. p. 433. 



,, ,, Striped Surmullet, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 368, 



pi. 64. 

 Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 12. 

 „ „ ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 216, sp. 158. 



Generic Characters. — Body thick, oblong ; profile of the head approaching to a 

 vertical line ; scales large, deciduous ; two dorsal fins widely separated, the rays 

 of the^first spinous, those of the second flexible ; teeth on the lower jaw and pa- 

 late only ; two cirri at the symphysis of the lower jaw ; branchiostegous rays 4. 



The characters which distinguish the two species of Red 

 Mullet common in the Mediterranean, both entitled to a 

 place in the catalogue of British Fishes, have been long 

 known, and figures of both are given in Willughby's Historia 

 Piscium, plate S. 7, figs. 1 and 2. One species, the well- 



