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MUGILID^. 



Ak. Wien, Ivii. i. lS(i8, p. 683; Jloreau, Poiss. France, iii. p. 195 (1881) ; 



Day, Brit. Fish. p. 232, pi. Ixvii. (1881); Smitt, Scand. Fish. i. p. 331, 



pi. XV. fig. 11 (1893). 

 Miiijil cephalus, var. B, Delaroche, Ann. Mus. Paris, xiii. 1809, p. 358, pi. xxi. 



' fig. 7. 

 iMitfjil cephalus (non L.), Risso, Ichthyol. Nice, p. 343 (1810). 

 iVuf^l lahrosus, Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Merid. iii. p. 389 (1826). 

 s^fl>,Jll corrugatus, Lowe, Tr. Zool. Soc. ii. 1839, p. 181, and Fish. Madeira, p. 155 



(18G0). 

 Miitjil septentrionalis, Giinth. Cat. t. c. p. 455. 



Depth of body 3i to 4^ times in total length, length of head 4 to 4^ 

 times. Snout as long as eye in young, longer in adult ; eye perfectly 



Fig. 52. 



Mugil cJtelo. 

 Madeira. 3. 



lateral or a little better visible from below than from above, with a mere 

 rudiment of lid, 4 (young) to 5-|- times in length of head, If to 2f times 

 in interorbital width ; nostrils close together; mouth forming an obtuse 

 angle ; maxillary exposed ; upper lip thick and broad, papillose, its 

 width more than | diameter of eye, nearly equal to eye in adult ; 

 mandibles in contact on the median line, entirely or nearly entirely 

 covering the chin; edge of prseorbital finely denticulated; 4 or 5 series 

 of scales on the cheek. Dorsals IV, II 7-8 ; first spine ^ to f length of 

 head, longest soft ray about f ; second dorsal originating above anterior 

 third or middle of anal. Anal III 9. Pectoral | to | length of head ; 

 no scale process above the axil. Caudal deeply emarginate, as long 

 as or a little longer than head. Caudal peduncle I5 to If times as 

 long as deep. 41-4-3 scales in longitudinal series, 14-15 in transverse 



