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EIGHT-RAYED MULLET. 
Mugil octoradiatus, Gunthek; Cat. Br. M., vol. iii, p. 437, 
and Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History, May, 1861, p, 3. 
The proportions of the body of this species are much like 
those of the last named. It has eight soft rays in the anal 
fin; the eyelid not adipose; upper lip thin, but in the void 
space on the throat it differs from the Long-finned Mullet in 
having it lengthened out to a space between the interopercula, 
but it agrees with that fish in having twenty-five scales between 
the snout and the spinous dorsal. It differs from it again in 
the form of the lower jaw. The colour of the back greenish; 
sides and belly silvery, with darker stripes along the sides. 
Two examples only have been noticed, one of which was in 
Mr. Yarrell’s collection, who mistook it for M. capita. It does 
not appear to have been known in any other country, or to 
have been noticed by any other observer. 
