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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.