. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Fishes. 1. MUGIL. 447 the spinous dorsal, and nearly as high as the tail underneath. Caudal long, forked. The anal is scaly, as high as, and longer than, the fin opposite. Greenish, shining silvery; a blackish spot superiorly in the axil of the pectoral. 43. Mugil smithii. Mugil macrolepis. Smith, HI. Zool. S. Afr. Pise. pi. 28. fig. 2 (not Ritpp. or Bleek.). D. 4 I 4-. A. 4. L. lat. 33-34. L. transv. 11-12. The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is con- tained four times and two-thirds in the
. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Fishes. 1. MUGIL. 447 the spinous dorsal, and nearly as high as the tail underneath. Caudal long, forked. The anal is scaly, as high as, and longer than, the fin opposite. Greenish, shining silvery; a blackish spot superiorly in the axil of the pectoral. 43. Mugil smithii. Mugil macrolepis. Smith, HI. Zool. S. Afr. Pise. pi. 28. fig. 2 (not Ritpp. or Bleek.). D. 4 I 4-. A. 4. L. lat. 33-34. L. transv. 11-12. The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is con- tained four times and two-thirds in the total. The least depth of the tail is not quite one-half of the length of the head. Eye with a very narrow adipose membrane posteriorly. The profile between the spinous dorsal and the snout is nearly straight, obliquely descending ; the interorbital space flattened, its -width being contained twice and a third in the length of the head. Snout broad, obtuse, de- pressed, with the upper lip rather thin ; the angle made by the anterior margins of the mandibulary bones is rather obtuse ; the cleft of the mouth is more than twice as broad as it is deep. The mandibles leave an elongate lanceolate space between them. The extre- mity of the maxillary is conspicuous behind the angle of the mouth; the praeorbital has a _^ . slight notch anteriorly, and the extremity ' ^™^ ^' tnmcated and denticulated. Nostrils close together, the posterior being nearer to the anterior than to the orbit. There are twenty scales between the spinous dorsal and the snout. The pectoral is inserted somewhat above the middle of the depth of the body, and has a very short, pointed scale in its axil; it is shorter than the head, the length of the snout not included, and extends to the ninth scale of the lateral line. The eleventh and the twenty-third scales of the lateral Kne correspond to the origin of the dorsal fins. The posterior dorsal and the anal are scaly, and the anterior third of the latter faUs befo
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