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Mugil cephalus Linnaeus 1758
Description
Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758.
Flathead Mullet, Grey Mullet, or Striped Mullet. To 135 cm (53.1 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002), Sea of Okhotsk, and southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); Humboldt Bay, northern California (Wallace et al. 2015) to Chile and Islas Galápagos (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Coastal, marine, brackish, fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: in sea, intertidal to 122 m (400 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Mugil cephalus appears to be a species complex (Neves et al. 2020).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Mugilidae
- Genus
- Mugil
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Mugiliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- cephalus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Parin, N. V. (2003) An annotated catalogue of fish-like vertebrates and fishes of the seas of Russia and adjacent countries: Part 3. Orders Perciformes (excluding suborders Gobioidei, Zoarcoidei and Stichaeoidei) and Tetraodontiformes. Journal of Ichthyology, 43, S 1 - S 40.
- Wallace, M., Ojerholm, E. W., Scheiff, A. J. & Kinziger, A. P. (2015) First record of striped mullet (Mugil cephalus) in Humboldt Bay, California. California Fish and Game, 101, 286 - 288.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).
- Neves, J. M. M., Almeida, J. P. F. A., Sturaro, M. J., Farbre, N. N., Pereira, R. J. & T. Mott, T. (2020) Deep genetic divergence and paraphyly in cryptic species of Mugil fishes (Actinopterygii: Mugilidae). Systematics and Biodiversity, 18, 116 - 128. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 14772000.2020.1729892