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PLATE XV. 
MUGIL CEPHALUS. 
MULLET. 
* ABDOMINALES. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head: Lips membranaceous : the lowered one carinated within. 
No teeth * ; in the upper part of the mouth a double fang-like cal- 
losity. Branchiostegeous -membrane with seven curved rays ; covers 
smooth and rotundated. Body whitish. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Four rays in the first dorsal fin. 
Mugil Cepiialus : pinna dorsali anteriore quinque radiata. Linn . 
Syst. Gmel. T. 1. p. 3. p. 1397. 184. 
sp. 1 . — and 
Mugil Albula : pinna dorsali anteriore quadriradiata. Gmel. 
T. 1. p. 3. p. 1340. 184. sp. 2. 
Bullet. Penn. Brit. Zool. p. 329. sp. 158, 
* This is an erroneous opinion of several authors beside Linnaeus and Gmel in. Its 
* ee th are minute, but sufficiently apparent in such of the genus as we have had an oppor- 
tunity of inspecting ; and are disposed along the exterior margin of the lips, especially 
'he upper one these teeth or denticulations are visible enough in Mugil Cephalus< 1 
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