. The Canadian field-naturalist. . Figure 1. Juvenile White Mullet, Mugil curema from Prospect Bay, Halifax County, Nova Scotia. Museum Fish Collection, two in St. Mary's Uni- versity, and one in the Royal Ontario Museum) taken from Prospect Bay, Halifax County, and found the anal fin ray count also to be III 9. A total of six specimens from two of the Prospect samples (catalogue numbers 968-Z-61-7(14) and 970-2-199-1(15) were sent to the Marine Re- search Laboratory, State of Florida Department of Natural Resources, where Kenneth R. Halscott confirmed the identification of the Nova Scotia Mus
. The Canadian field-naturalist. . Figure 1. Juvenile White Mullet, Mugil curema from Prospect Bay, Halifax County, Nova Scotia. Museum Fish Collection, two in St. Mary's Uni- versity, and one in the Royal Ontario Museum) taken from Prospect Bay, Halifax County, and found the anal fin ray count also to be III 9. A total of six specimens from two of the Prospect samples (catalogue numbers 968-Z-61-7(14) and 970-2-199-1(15) were sent to the Marine Re- search Laboratory, State of Florida Department of Natural Resources, where Kenneth R. Halscott confirmed the identification of the Nova Scotia Museum specimens as M. curema. Halscott's iden- tification was based primarily on anal fin ray and body scale counts, plus characteristics documented by Anderson (1957 a and b). A mullet 77 millimeters in total length, deter- mined as M. cephalus, taken in Bedford Basin, Halifax County, in 1931 (Vladykov, 1935) is missing. However, the author believes that this specimen may also have been misidentified. All 311 specimens from the 32 extant collections of Mugil from Nova Scotia examined in this study have been M. curema. Vladykov's record is proba- bly a misidentification and is tentatively tabled as the second collection of M. curema from inshore Nova Scotia waters. M. cephalus is deleted from the Canadian ichthyofauna until a verifiable speci- men is found. Bigelow and Schroeder (1953) report only M. cephalus from the adjacent waters of the Gulf of Maine; the possibility of their records being M. curema should be examined. All Canadian records to date of M. curema are juveniles ranging from to 77 millimeters in total length and were taken in inshore Nova Scotia waters, between Halifax and Lunenburg Counties. The author gratefully acknowledges the advice and encouragement received from Dr. Don E. McAllister, Curator of Fishes, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, during the course of this investigation and to Kenneth R. Halscott, Marine Research Laboratory, State of F
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