. Catalogue of the fishes in the ... Museum. 1. MUGIL. 431 22. Mugil brasiliensis. ? Curema, Marcgr. p. 181; Pisun. p. 70. ]Mugil brasiliensis, Agass. in Sjnx, Pise. Bras. p. 234. tab. 72 (not good). ? Mugil incilis, Hancock in Lond. Quart. Juurn. Sc. 1830, p. 127. Mugil curema, Cuv. ^ Val. xi. p. 87 ; Gay, Hist. adl. Zool. ii. p. 259. ? Mugil petrosus, Cm. 8i Val. xi. p. 89 ; Gay, I. c. p. 200. D. 4 I A. |. L. lat. 36-38. L. transv. 12-13. Vert. 11/13. The height of the body is contained four times and a half to four times and four-fifths in the total length, the length of the head five t
. Catalogue of the fishes in the ... Museum. 1. MUGIL. 431 22. Mugil brasiliensis. ? Curema, Marcgr. p. 181; Pisun. p. 70. ]Mugil brasiliensis, Agass. in Sjnx, Pise. Bras. p. 234. tab. 72 (not good). ? Mugil incilis, Hancock in Lond. Quart. Juurn. Sc. 1830, p. 127. Mugil curema, Cuv. ^ Val. xi. p. 87 ; Gay, Hist. adl. Zool. ii. p. 259. ? Mugil petrosus, Cm. 8i Val. xi. p. 89 ; Gay, I. c. p. 200. D. 4 I A. |. L. lat. 36-38. L. transv. 12-13. Vert. 11/13. The height of the body is contained four times and a half to four times and four-fifths in the total length, the length of the head five times. The snout is moderately broad, not convex, with the lower profile ascending in the same de- gree as the upper descends; the interorbital space is slightly con- vex, its width being contained twice and a third in the length of the head. Upper lip rather thick. The angle made by the two man- dibulary bones is a right one ; the praeorbital tapers posteriorly, has the anterior margin finely serrated, and covers the maxillarj', so that only a very narrow portion of it is visible on the side of the snout. Eyes hidden anteriorly and poste- riorly by a broad adipose mem- brane ; nostrils rather distant from each other, the posterior situated on the middle between the orbit and the extremity of the snout. The space at the chin, between the manchbles and the interopercula, is elongate, cuneiform. The second dorsal and the anal are enveloped in small scales. There are twenty-one scales between the snout and the anterior dorsal. The first two dorsal spines are more than half as long as the head. The ninth or tenth, the eleventh or twelfth, and the twenty-third scale of the lateral line correspond to the extremity of the pectoral fin and to the origin of the two dorsal fins. The root of the pectoral is above the middle of the body, and the ventral is inserted midway between pectoral and spinous dorsal; pectoral shorter than the head; caudal deeply emarginate. Shining stripes along the
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