The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6
Mugilidæ
Mugilidæ.
Body more or less oblong and compressed, covered with cycloid scales of moderate size; lateral line, none. Cleft of the mouth narrow or of moderate width, without or with feeble teeth. Eye lateral, well developed. Gill-opening wide; four gills; pseudo-branchiæ; five or six branchiostegals. Two short dorsal fins, the anterior with four stiff spines; anal a little longer than the dorsal opposite. Ventral fins with one spine and five rays, abdominal, suspended from the elongate caracoid bone. Number of vertebras twenty-four.
Fresh waters and coasts of all the temperate and tropical regions. Feeding on soft organic substances or very small animals.
Mugil dobula. Australian rivers and coast.
——waigiensis. North-west coast.
——compressus. Rivers and coast of New South Wales.
——Peronii. North-west coast.
Agonostoma Forsteri. Australian coast.
Myxus elongatus. Port Jackson.