Chelon auratus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Alborz, Iran. E-mail: jouladehroudbar @ ut. ac. ir
- 2. Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. * Correspondence: E-mail: hamid. ghanavi @ gmail. com (Ghanavi)
- 3. Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Department, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, Madrid, Spain. E-mail: doadrio @ mncn. csic. es
Description
Chelon auratus (Risso, 1810) – Non-native (Fig. 497)
Mugil auratus Risso [A.] 1810: 344; Type locality: Nice, France, northwestern Mediterranean Sea. No types known.
Common name: Pr: Kafal talayi, En: Golden grey mullet.
Diagnosis: Head and anterodorsal flank scale having only one pit or groove (occasionally double), 6–11 pyloric caeca of about equal length or gradually becoming longer from ventral to dorsal, scales on the snout ending anteriorly as a single row of small scales, and the oral edge of the preorbital bone is moderately concave. The upper jaw reaches posteriorly to a level with the posterior nostril, the only species in the genus with this character. Young have two vertical dark lines at the origin of the caudal fin rays and a herring bone pattern on the flanks.
Meristic characters: D 1: IV, D 2: I–II 6–9, A: III 7–10 (9), P: 13–17, V: 5, LS: 40–49, TV: 23–25.
Distribution: Caspian Sea basin (Fig. 498). Found in the lower reaches of rivers along the Caspian Sea basin.
Taxonomy: Berg (1949) placed in Mugil, Dor (1984) in Liza, Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2015b) transferred to Chelon.
Conservation: IUCN: Least Concern (under name Liza aurata (Freyhof and Kottelat 2008t), PC: Non-native, Not Applicable.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.6620/ZS.2020.59-21 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/12822787 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/8E55FFC5E24B9C33FFDE5671272CFF97 (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/726C87BDE35B9D23FF0E57CD2367FCA2 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Risso
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Mugiliformes
- Family
- Mugilidae
- Genus
- Chelon
- Species
- auratus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chelon auratus (Risso, 1810) sec. Jouladeh-Roudbar, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2020
References
- Berg LS. 1949. Israel program for scientific translations, Jerusalem Freshwater fishes of the USSR and adjacent countries, 496 pp.
- Dor M. 1984. Checklist of the Fishes of the Red Sea: Clofres. In: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
- Jouladeh-Roudbar A, Vatandoust S, Eagderi S, Jafari-Kenari S, Mousavi-Sabet H. 2015 b. Freshwater fishes of Iran; an updated checklist. AACL Bioflux 8: 855 - 909.
- Freyhof J, Kottelat M. 2008 t. Liza aurata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e. T 135579 A 4151433.