MUGIL. 



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Mugil chelo (non Cuv.), Lowe, Tr. Zool. Soc. ii. 1839, p. 184. 



Mugil maderensis, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 82, and Tr. Zool. Soc. iii. 1842, 



p. 8. 

 Mugil natalensis, Casteln. Mem. Poiss. Air. Austr. p. 50 (1861) ; Gilchrist & 



Thompson, Ann. S. Afr. Mus. xi. 1911, p. 43. 

 Mugil octoradiatus, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) vii. 1861, p. 347. 

 Mugil octoradiatus, part., Giinth. Cat. t. c. p. 437. 

 ? Mugil saliens (non Risso), Giinth. Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 213. 

 Myxus curvidens, SteinJ. Denkschr. Ak. Wien, xliv. 1882, p. 42. 



Depth of body 3| to 5 times in total length, length of head 4 to 5 

 times. Snout as long as or a little longer than eye in adult, shorter in 

 young; eye better visible from below than from above in adult; a mere 



Fig. 50. 



Mugil auralus. 

 L. Menzaleh (P. N.). J. 



rudiment of adipose eyelid ; diameter of eye 4 to 5 times in length of 

 head, 1J to 2^ times in interorbital width; nostrils close together; 

 mouth forming an obtuse angle; maxillary entirely or almost entirely 

 hidden when the mouth is closed ; upper lip rather narrow, not 

 exceeding ^ diameter of eye ; a lanceolate space between the rami of 

 the lower jaw ; prasorbital with the edge finely serrated. Dorsals IV, 

 II 7 ; the first two spines measuring § to f length of head, longest soft 

 ray about the same length ; second dorsal originating above anterior 

 third of anal. Anal HI 9 (exceptionally 8). Pectoral f to once 

 length of head ; no scaly process above the axil. Caudal forked, as 

 long as or a little longer than head. Caudal peduncle 1^ to 2 times 

 as long as deep. 40-46 scales in longitudinal series, 13-15 in trans- 

 verse series. Greyish brown above, silvery white beneath ; more or less 



