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MUGILID.E. 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



MUGILIDjE. 



THE GREY MULLET. 



Mugil capito, Cuvier, Regne An. t. ii. p. 232. 

 ,, cephalus, Willughby, p. 174, tab. R. 3. 



„ „ Grey Mullet, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 346, pi. 77. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 15. 



,, ,, Common Mullet, Flem. Brit. An. p. 217, sp. 159. 



Generic Characters. — Body nearly cylindrical, covered with large scales ; 

 two dorsal fins, widely separated, the rays of the first fin spinous, those of the 

 second flexible ; ventral fins behind the pectorals ; middle of the under jaw 

 with an elevated angular point, and a corresponding groove in the upper ; 

 teeth small ; branchiostegous rays 6. 



Baron Cuvier, in the last edition of his Regne Animal, 

 states, in a note at the foot of page 231, that Linnseus and 

 several of his successors have confounded all the European 

 Grey Mullets under one common name, — that of Mugil 

 cejjhalus. He has, however, distinguished among them 

 several species : and according to him, the description of the 

 cephalus of Willughby and the figure of the cejjhalus of 



