. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. 84 MUGILID.^. Miu/il ramada, Hisso, Hist. Xat. Eiir. Mcrid. iii. p. 390 (1826). Miufd hntannims, Hancock, Lond. Quart. Journ. Sc. 1830, p. 129. Muci'il duhahra, Guv. & Val. t. c. p. 60. Muffil capensis (non 0. & V.), A. Smith, HI. Zool. P. Afr., Fish. pi. xxx. fig. 1 (1846) ; Casteln. Mem. Po'ss. Afr. Austr. p. 46 (1861). Mugil midtilineatus, A. Smith, 1. c. fig. 2. Muffil smitldi, Casteln. op. cit. p. 47. Muffil odoradiatus, Gunth. Cat. iii. p. 437 (part.) ; Lortet,
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. 84 MUGILID.^. Miu/il ramada, Hisso, Hist. Xat. Eiir. Mcrid. iii. p. 390 (1826). Miufd hntannims, Hancock, Lond. Quart. Journ. Sc. 1830, p. 129. Muci'il duhahra, Guv. & Val. t. c. p. 60. Muffil capensis (non 0. & V.), A. Smith, HI. Zool. P. Afr., Fish. pi. xxx. fig. 1 (1846) ; Casteln. Mem. Po'ss. Afr. Austr. p. 46 (1861). Mugil midtilineatus, A. Smith, 1. c. fig. 2. Muffil smitldi, Casteln. op. cit. p. 47. Muffil odoradiatus, Gunth. Cat. iii. p. 437 (part.) ; Lortet, t. c. p. 133, pi. xi. fig. 2. Miiyil petlieric'i, Giiiith. t. c. p. 441, and Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 211. liLugil curtus (non Yarrell), Lortet, t. c. p. 132, pi. xi. fig. 1. Mngil auralus (non Risso), Lortet, t. c. p. 134, pi. xi. fig. 3. ? Liza alosoides, H. W. Fowler, Proc. Ac. Philad. iv. 1903, p. 746, pi. xlv. Depth of body 4 to 5 times in total length, length of head 3^ (young) to 41 times. Snout nearly as long as eye in adult, shorter in young; riff. Miujil capita. L. Meiizaleh (F. N.). eye perfectly lateral in young, better visible from below than from above in adult, with a mere rudiment of adipose lid, its diameter 3 (young) to 5 times in length of head, 1 to 2-g- times in interorbital width; nostrils close together; mouth forming an obtuse angle; maxillary nearly com- pletely hidden when the mouth is closed; upper lip narrow, its diameter less than half that of the eye; a lanceolate space between the rami of the lower jaw; prseorbital with the edge finely serrated; 4 or 5 series of scales on the cheek. Dorsals IV (exceptionally III or V), IT 9-10; the first two spines -^ to f length of head, the longest ray about ^ or a little less than \ length of head ; second dorsal originating above anterior third of anal. Anal III 9 (exceptionally 8 or 10). Pectoral f to f length of head ; a large scaly process above the axil. Caudal deeply emarginate,. Please note that the
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