Mullet (fish)

Mullet

The family of mullets ( Mugilidae ) lives with 80 species in 17 genera worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions of seashores and in brackish water. Some species also migrate into rivers. For example, Liza abu lives exclusively in fresh water, in the Indus, in the rivers of Iran, the Euphrates and Tigris. Some species have economic importance as food fish.

The mullet roe is considered, dried and salted, in Italy and southern France as a specialty ( bottarga or Poutargue ).

Features

Mullets have an elongated, strong physique. The side of the fish is covered with large, silvery ctenoid scales. Only the genus Myxus has cycloid scales. The short first dorsal fin has four spines. The separated by a large gap second dorsal fin is also short and is supported by eight to ten soft rays. The anal fin has two to three spike - and seven to eleven soft rays. The pectoral fins are high on the body that of a hard and five soft rays branched assisted pelvic fins to the body bottom, far ahead, but still well behind the pectoral fins. The lateral line organ is atrophied or absent. The head of the mullet is flat on top, the mouth terminal and small teeth are also small or absent. Your bowel is very long and extends to eight times body length. This length is necessary for the processing of mainly plant food. Mullets reach lengths of tens of centimeters to one meter.

Outer systematics

The systematic position of mullets long remained enigmatic. They were therefore classified within the bream in its own order, the Mugiliformes; other scientists count the mullets to the Perciformes ( Perciformes ).

Surprisingly, the first families basslets ( Pseudochromidae ) were determined from the order of Perciformes as a sister group of mullets In various recent phylogenetic studies, later the miracle perch ( Plesiopidae ). Both families are likely to be closely related to each other and form with others, living in tropical coral reef fish families a circle of related families who received through the underwater photographer Rudie H. Kuiter and Helmut Debelius the provisional German name " dwarf perch-likes ". The mullet, the Ährenfisch relatives who " dwarf Barschartigen " and some other related taxa with them are summarized in a recent review of the teleost systematics to the taxon Ovalentaria.

Genera

  • Genus Agonostomus Bennett, 1832 Agonostomus catalai Pellegrin, 1932
  • Agonostomus monticola ( Bancroft in Griffith & Smith, 1834)
  • Agonostomus telfairii Bennett, 1832
  • Aldrichetta forsteri ( Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1836)
  • Cestraeus goldiei
  • Cestraeus plicatilis
  • Cestraeus Oxyrhyncus
  • Chaenomugil proboscideus Gill, 1863
  • Thicklip Mullet ( Chelon labrosus )
  • Crenimugil crenilabis
  • Crenimugil heterocheilos
  • Joturus pichardi Poey, 1860
  • Thin-lipped gray mullet ( Liza ramada )
  • Gold mullet ( Liza aurata )
  • Mugil capito
  • Mugil chelo
  • Mugil bananensis ( Pellegrin, 1927)
  • Mugil Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes broussonnetii, 1836
  • Mugil capurrii (Perugia, 1892)
  • Big-headed mullet ( Mugil cephalus ) Linnaeus, 1758
  • White mullet ( Mugil curema ) Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1836
  • Mugil Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes curvidens, 1836
  • Mugil gaimardianus Desmarest in Bory de Saint -Vincent, 1831
  • Mugil galapagensis Ebeling, 1961
  • Mugil gyrans ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1884)
  • Mugil hospes Jordan & Culver in Jordan, 1895
  • Mugil incilis Hancock, 1830
  • Mugil liza Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1836
  • Mugil setosus Gilbert, 1892
  • Mugil trichodon Poey, 1875
  • Myxus capensis ( Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1836)
  • Myxus elongatus Günther, 1861
  • Myxus Petardi ( Castelnau, 1875)
  • Neomyxus leuciscus ( Günther, 1872)
  • Box foot- mullet ( Oedalechilus labeo ) ( Cuvier, 1829)
  • Oedalechilus labiosus ( Valenciennes, 1836)
  • Paramugil georgii ( Ogilby, 1897)
  • Paramugil parmatus ( Cantor, 1849)
  • Indian nose mullet ( Rhinomugil corsula )
  • Rhinomugil nasutus
  • Sicamugil cascasia (Hamilton, 1822)
  • Sicamugil hamiltonii ( Day, 1870)
  • Valamugil buchanani ( Bleeker, 1854)
  • Valamugil cunnesius ( Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1836)
  • Valamugil engeli ( Bleeker, 1858-59 )
  • Valamugil formosae ( Oshima, 1922)
  • Valamugil perusii ( Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1836)
  • Valamugil robustus ( Günther, 1861)
  • Valamugil seheli ( Forsskål, 1775)
  • Valamugil speigleri ( Bleeker, 1858-59 )
  • Xenomugil thoburni Jordan & Starks in Jordan & Evermann, 1896
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