Mugilidae Jarocki 1822
Authors/Creators
- 1. Escuela de Biología, Museo de Zoología / Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET) and Centro de
- 2. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 480 Wilson Rd # 13, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA joel. t. betts @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6018 - 8995
- 3. Unidad de Gestión Técnica de Proyectos - Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales y de Cooperación Externa (ORICE / UGETEP),
- 4. Universidad Americana (UAM, Costado Noroeste Camino de Oriente, Managua, Nicaragua edgar. ecologica @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8148 - 3195
- 5. Department of Environment and Development, Zamorano Biodiversity Center. Zamorano University of Tegucigalpa, P. O. Box 93, Honduras evandenberghe @ zamorano. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7566 - 0415
- 6. Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). Chicago, Illinois, United States of America delias @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4215 - 0384 cmcmahan @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2113 - 8554
Description
Family Mugilidae Jarocki 1822 (Fig. 4K). Mullets; Lisas, Machines, Bobos
Description: Body moderately elongate, robust; up to 120 cm in length, usually less than 90 cm; head often broad and flattened above; mouth small, opening at the front or under the snout, lips relatively thin; eyes partly covered by a transparent fatty eyelid; pectoral fins high on body; lateral line absent or very faint; pectoral girdle associated with three extrascapular bones; pelvic fins subabdominal, with one spine and five branched soft rays; two dorsal fins, widely separated, the first one with four spines, the second one with 8–10 rays; anal fin with two or three spines and 7–11 soft rays; caudal fin concave or weakly forked (Robertson & Allen 2015, Nelson et al. 2016). Distribution: Coastal marine and brackish water, some freshwater; all tropical and temperate seas (Nelson et al. 2016). Four genera and eight species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Jarocki
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Mugiliformes
- Family
- Mugilidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mugilidae Jarocki, 1822 sec. Angulo, Betts, González-Alemán, Castañeda, Berghe, Elías, Mcmahan & Matamoros, 2023
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: online information system. Version 2.0. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama´. Available from: https: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages (acccesed 18 February 2023)