. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. 00 MUGILID^. Ak. Wien, Ivii. i. lS(i8, p. 683; Jloreau, Poiss. France, iii. p. 195 (1881) ; Day, Brit. Fish. p. 232, pi. Ixvii. (1881); Smitt, Scand. Fish. i. p. 331, pi. XV. fig. 11 (1893). Miiijil cephalus, var. B, Delaroche, Ann. Mus. Paris, xiii. 1809, p. 358, pi. xxi. ' fig. 7. iMitfjil cephalus (non L.), Risso, Ichthyol. Nice, p. 343 (1810). iVuf^l lahrosus, Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Merid. iii. p. 389 (1826). s^fl>,Jll corrugatus, Lowe, Tr. Zool. Soc. ii. 1839, p. 181,
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. 00 MUGILID^. Ak. Wien, Ivii. i. lS(i8, p. 683; Jloreau, Poiss. France, iii. p. 195 (1881) ; Day, Brit. Fish. p. 232, pi. Ixvii. (1881); Smitt, Scand. Fish. i. p. 331, pi. XV. fig. 11 (1893). Miiijil cephalus, var. B, Delaroche, Ann. Mus. Paris, xiii. 1809, p. 358, pi. xxi. ' fig. 7. iMitfjil cephalus (non L.), Risso, Ichthyol. Nice, p. 343 (1810). iVuf^l lahrosus, Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Merid. iii. p. 389 (1826). s^fl>,Jll corrugatus, Lowe, Tr. Zool. Soc. ii. 1839, p. 181, and Fish. Madeira, p. 155 (18G0). Miitjil septentrionalis, Giinth. Cat. t. c. p. 455. Depth of body 3i to 4^ times in total length, length of head 4 to 4^ times. Snout as long as eye in young, longer in adult; eye perfectly Fig. Mugil cJtelo. Madeira. 3. lateral or a little better visible from below than from above, with a mere rudiment of lid, 4 (young) to 5-|- times in length of head, If to 2f times in interorbital width ; nostrils close together; mouth forming an obtuse angle; maxillary exposed ; upper lip thick and broad, papillose, its width more than | diameter of eye, nearly equal to eye in adult; mandibles in contact on the median line, entirely or nearly entirely covering the chin; edge of prseorbital finely denticulated; 4 or 5 series of scales on the cheek. Dorsals IV, II 7-8 ; first spine ^ to f length of head, longest soft ray about f; second dorsal originating above anterior third or middle of anal. Anal III 9. Pectoral | to | length of head ; no scale process above the axil. Caudal deeply emarginate, as long as or a little longer than head. Caudal peduncle I5 to If times as long as deep. 41-4-3 scales in longitudinal series, 14-15 in transverse. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original w
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