. Catalogue of the fishes in the ... Museum. 1. MUGIL. 423 total length. Eyes with an adipose membrane ; head less broad than in M. ceplialus; forehead convex. The upper lip is thick, without teeth or cilia, and appeai-s to be obliquely truncated below the snout (" parait comme coui>ce obliquement sous le muscau "). The pectoral is shorter than the head, and has a very long- and pointed scale in its axil; the second dorsal and the anal are scaly. Caudal cmarginate. Pectoral blackish. Vanicolo. 9. Mugil liza. ? Harder, Marcgr. p. 166. ? Tarati, Marq'/r. p. 181. Querimau, Hancock in
. Catalogue of the fishes in the ... Museum. 1. MUGIL. 423 total length. Eyes with an adipose membrane ; head less broad than in M. ceplialus; forehead convex. The upper lip is thick, without teeth or cilia, and appeai-s to be obliquely truncated below the snout (" parait comme coui>ce obliquement sous le muscau "). The pectoral is shorter than the head, and has a very long- and pointed scale in its axil; the second dorsal and the anal are scaly. Caudal cmarginate. Pectoral blackish. Vanicolo. 9. Mugil liza. ? Harder, Marcgr. p. 166. ? Tarati, Marq'/r. p. 181. Querimau, Hancock in Loud. Quart. Journ. Sc. 1830, p. 125. Mugil liza, Ciiv. Sr Val. xi. p. 83; Jemjns, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, p. 80. D. 4 ||. A. |. 32-35. L. transv. 13. Ciec. pylor. 2. The height of the body is one-sixth of the total length, the length of the head one-fifth. The eye is hidden behind an adipose mem- brane. The maxillaiy is entirely covered by the praeorbital. The second dorsal and the anal fins are scaleless. Atlantic coasts of Tropical America. a-h. Adidt: stuffed and skin. West Indies. c. Adult: stuffed. British Guiana. Presented by Sir E. Schomburgk. 10. Mugil subviridis. Cuv. ^- Val. xi. p. 115. D. 4 ||. A. |. L. lat. 30. L. transv. 11. The height of the body is contained four times and a half in the total length, the length of the head five times and a third. Adipose eyelids weU developed. The least depth of the tail is contained once and two-thirds in the length of the head. The interorbital space is flat, and its width is contained twice and a fourth in the length of the head. Snout broad, obtuse, depressed, as long as the eye; its anterior margin is formed by the upper lip, which is moderately thick. The angle made by the anterior margins of the mandibulary bones is very obtuse, and the cleft of the mouth is at least thrice as broad as it is deep. The free space at the chin, between the two mandibles, is rather short, cuneiform. The maxillary is bent downwards behin
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