90 



MUGILIDvE. 



Ak. Wien, lvii. i. 18fi8, p. 683; Moreau, Poiss. France, iii. p. 195 (1881); 



Day, Brit. Fish. p. 232, pi. Ixvii. (1881) ; Sinifct, Scand. Fish. i. p. 334, 



pi. xv. fig. 11 (1893). 

 Mugil cephalus, var. B, Delaroche, Ann. Mas. Paris, xiii. 1809, p. 358, pi. xxi. 



' fig. 7. 

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

 Mugil labrosus, Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Merid. iii. p. 389 (1826). 

 Mugil corrugatus, Lowe, TV. Zool. Soc. ii. 1839, p. 184, and Fish. Madeira, p. 155 



(18C0). 

 Mugil septenlrionalis, Giinth. Cat. t. c. p. 455. 



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

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



Fig. 52. 







Mugil clielo. 

 Madeira. 3. 



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

 rudiment of lid, 4 (young) to &\ 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 praeorbital 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 f to -| length of head ; 

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

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

 long as deep. 41-45 scales in longitudinal series, 14-15 in transverse 



