Register of Antarctic Species (RAS) - Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
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(of Mugil cephalus cephalus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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Descriptive notes

Description Occurs at temperatures ranging from 8-24°C (Ref. 4944) in calm waters close to shore, around mouths of streams and inlets,...

Description Occurs at temperatures ranging from 8-24°C (Ref. 4944) in calm waters close to shore, around mouths of streams and inlets, and brackish bays and harbors. Usually found in schools over sand or mud bottom (Ref. 2850). Mainly diurnal, feeds on zooplankton, benthic organisms and detritus. Also takes diatom algae and small invertebrates (Ref. 9072). Feeds occasionally at the surface (Ref. 9987). Can be used in aquaculture if stock is collected from the sea (Ref. 4967). Marketed fresh, dried,salted, and frozen; roe sold fresh or smoked (Ref. 9312). [details]

Distribution Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada to Brazil; Cape Cod to southern Gulf of Mexico; absent in the Bahamas and most of...

Distribution Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada to Brazil; Cape Cod to southern Gulf of Mexico; absent in the Bahamas and most of West Indies and Caribbean [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126983 on 2024-11-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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van der Land, Jacob

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 316 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Mugil ashanteensis Bleeker, 1863) Bleeker, P. (1863). Mémoire sur les poissons de la côte de Guinée. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem (Ser. 2). v. 18 (1862): 1-136, Pls. 1-28.
page(s): 91, Pl. 19 (fig. 2) [details]

original description (of Mugil rammelsbergii Tschudi, 1846) Tschudi, J. J. von. (1846). Ichthyologie. . In: Untersuchungen über die Fauna Peruana. Scheitlin & Zollikofer, St. Gallen. Pp. ii-xxx + 1-35, Pls. 1-6.1844-46, in 12 parts. [Parts 1-2 issued in 1844, 3-5 in 1845, 6-12 in 1846. Overall pp. 1-693. Fishes evidently all in 1846. [details]

original description (of Mugil albula Linnaeus, 1766) Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 12. 1., Regnum Animale. 1 & 2. Holmiae [Stockholm], Laurentii Salvii. pp. 1-532 [1766] pp. 533-1327 [1767]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details]

original description (of Mugil cephalotus Valenciennes, 1836) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1836). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome onzième. Livre treizième. De la famille des Mugiloïdes. Livre quatorzième. De la famille des Gobioïdes. v. 11: i-xx + 1-506 + 2 pp., Pls. 307-343. [details]

original description (of Mugil grandis Castelnau, 1879) Castelnau, F. L. (1879). Essay on the ichthyology of Port Jackson. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. v. 3 (pt 4): 347-402.
page(s): 386 [details]

original description (of Mugil japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) Temminck, C. J.; Schlegel, H. (1845). Pisces. In: Siebold, P. F. de (ed.): Fauna Japonica, sive descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam ... suscepto annis 1823-1830 collegit, notis, observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit Ph. Fr. de Siebold. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] (A. Arnz et soc.). Parts 7-9: 113-172, Pls. 1-143 + A. [details]

original description (of Mugil mexicanus Steindachner, 1876) Steindachner, F. (1875). Ichthyologische Beiträge (III). Bemerkungen über Serranus nebulifer und S. clathratus sp. Gird. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. v. 72 (1. Abth.): 29-96, Pls. 1-8. [details]

original description (of Mugil lineatus Valenciennes, 1836) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1836). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome onzième. Livre treizième. De la famille des Mugiloïdes. Livre quatorzième. De la famille des Gobioïdes. v. 11: i-xx + 1-506 + 2 pp., Pls. 307-343. [details]

original description (of Mugil our Forsskål, 1775) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 74, xiv [details]

original description (of Mugil tang Bloch, 1794) Bloch, M. E. (1794). Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. Berlin. v. 8. i-iv + 1-174, Pls. 361-396. [details]

original description (of Mugil provensalis Risso, 1810) Risso, A. (1810). Ichthyologie de Nice, ou histoire naturelle des poissons du Département des Alpes Maritimes. F. Schoell, Paris. i-xxxvi + 1-388, Pls. 1-11., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.7052
page(s): 346 [details]

original description (of Myxus pacificus Steindachner, 1900) Steindachner, F. (1900). Fische aus dem Stillen Ocean. Ergebnisse einer Reise nach dem Pacific (Schauinsland, 1896-1897). Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. v. 37 (no. 16) (for 21 June 1900): 174-178. [details]

original description (of Mugil cephalus cephalus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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context source (HKRMS) Hong Kong marine fish database. AFCD. , available online at https://www.hk-fish.net/en/fish/introduction/ [details]

context source (WoRCS) Kovačić, M.; Gerovasileiou, V.; Patzner, R. A. (2024). Fishes in Marine Caves. Fishes. 9(6): 243., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/9/6/243 [details] Available for editors

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context source (RAS) Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]

context source (PeRMS) Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. 2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao. 314 p. [details]

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. No. 219. 731 pp. [details]

additional source Welshman, D.; Kohler, S; Black, J.; and L. Van Guelpen. (2003). An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details]

additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554. [details]

additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2024). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2024., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2024). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Diet Feeds on zooplankton, benthic organisms, detritus [details]

Distribution Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada to Brazil; Cape Cod to southern Gulf of Mexico; absent in the Bahamas and most of West Indies and Caribbean [details]

Habitat Occasionally found in Canadian Atlantic waters. Coastal species, found to depths of 120 m and often enter estuaries and rivers. [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Importance Social- Highly commercial, aquaculture, gamefish [details]

Reproduction Spawns in the sea from July to October, scatters 5- 7 million eggs into the open water/ substratum [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
Albanian	qefulli i verësgushtakucumricumraku	[details]
Basque	lazunakorrokoi bizkarbeltz	[details]
Breton	meilh bihen	[details]
Catalan	llissa llobarrera	[details]
Corsican	muzarumazzardu	[details]
Dutch	hardergrootkopharder	[details]
English	striped mulletgrey mulletflathead mulletflathead grey mullet	[details]
French	petit mulet grismulet cabotmulet à grosse têtemuge cephalemugemeuille	[details]
German	Großkopfmeeräschegroßkopf Meeräsche	[details]
Hebrew	קיפון גדול-ראשקיפון בורי	[details]
Italian	cefalo	[details]
Japanese	ボラ [from synonym]カラスミボラ [from synonym]	[details]
Lithuanian	didžiagalvė kefalė	[details]
Modern Greek (1453-)	Κέφαλος	[details]
Polish	cefal pospolity	[details]
Portuguese	tainha-olhalvomugemfatacacurimã	[details]
Romanian	chefal	[details]
Russian	черная кефальлобанКефаль лобан	[details]
Slovenian	glavati cipelj	[details]
Spanish	pardetemújollisa rayada	[details]
Turkish	has kefal	[details]
Ukrainian	Кефаль-лобанКефаль лобань	[details]