PISCES abdomtna i.e s. mugil. 
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The Jins. The first dorsal, in the middle of the back, consists of four pretty long, curve, spinous rays; the 
second, of ten declining ramous rays, is situated an inch and six lines nearer the tail; the pectoral high, broad, 
acuminate above; the ventral middle between the pectoral and first dorsal, has one spinous ray; the anal 
opposite, and in shape exactly like the second dorsal, has one spine also; the caudal fin large, broad, lunate. 
The colour of the crown and back changeable green and blue, the rest a shining white. On each side are five 
: or six dusky fillets, running from the opercula to the caudal fin. 
Length, one foot and a half. 
REMARKS. 
This fish, though very common in India, is much esteemed; being in quality greatly superior to the Gray 
Mullet in England. They are sometimes considerably larger than the subject now described. 
No. CLXXXI. 
Mugil squama lanceolata ad fiinnas pectorales et ventrales; pinna anati aculeis tribus; cauda 
sub-lunata. 
The Mugil with a lanceolate scale at the pectoral and ventral fins ; three spines in the 
anal fin ; the tail sub-lunate. 
Called by the Natives KunneseE. 
J_ 1 3 
B. v. D. 4. 9. P. 14. V. 6. A. 12. C. 18. 
The body oblong, thickish, compressed, squamous, smooth. Scales sub-orbicular, truncate at the base, not 
tenacious. 
The head ovate, roundish* compressed; the crown and front depressed; the nose short, soft, obtuse, but does 
not project so far over the mouth as in the last fish; the crown and cheeks squamous. The mouth small, 
without teeth; lips simple. Jaws short, extractile ; the under somewhat shorter than the upper; the former 
carinate, and the latter grooved as in the Mullet. Tongue thickish, smooth, fixed. Palate tuberculate. The 
eyes high, advanced, large, orbicular. Nostrils high, double, the posterior oval. The branchial opercula 
rounded, bony, without scales, smooth; the membi'ane covered; aperture arched. 
The trunk. The back straight to the second dorsal fin, it then declines more sensibly than in the Mullet; the 
breast and abdomen convex; the exterior branchiae pectinate; no lateral line visible. Anus remote. 
The fins. The dorsal fins as in the Mullet, but the posterior more falcate; the pectoral middle, acuminate; 
the ventral decline from the second ray; the anal longer than the dorsal, exactly opposite, sub-falcate; the 
caudal sub-lunate. 
The colour of the head and back, grayish; the face, sides, belly, and throat, white; the dorsal and caudal 
fins a dark gray; the others whitish. 
REMARKS. 
This fish, at first sight, is easily mistaken for a young Mullet; in what it will be found to differ may be com¬ 
prised in the few following distinctions. The nose is less prominent; the cheeks are squamous; the branchial 
membrane has five ossicles; the lanceolate squama? at the pectoral and ventral fins, and the three spines in 
the anal fin, are wanting in the Mullet. 
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