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Stomach muscular, like gizzard of fowl. Anal spines 3, only 2 developed in
young.
A large genus, with many species, feeding on mud and living in great schools along the shores and brackish lagoons in all warm regions. Some enter fresh water and many are valued as food.
Synopsis of the Species.
a'. Mugil. Front of jaws broadly convex as seen from above; lips narrow or
only moderately wide.
b'. Pointed scaly flap in pectoral axil.
c'. Adipose lids of eye largely cover eye.
d'. Branched anal rays 9.
e1. Scales 33 to 38.
f. Pectoral little shorter than head.
g'. Predorsal scales 24.
affinis.
g2. Predorsal scales 18 or 19.
h'. Eye 27/8 in head.
strongycephalus.
h2. Eye 3 3/5 to 434.
tade. longimanus.
f2. Pectoral long as head.
e2. Scales 41.
d2. Branched anal rays 8.
carinatus.
cephalus.
c2. Eye without adipose eye-lids; scales 30 to 35; branched anal rays
9 or 10.
b2. No pointed scaly flap in pectoral axil.
¿1. Branched anal rays 9.
j1. Eye with broad adipose lids.
ceramensis.
k1. Scales 30.
k2. Scales 38 to 40.
j2. Eye without adipose lids.
dussumieri.
seheli.
1. Scales 30 to 33, predorsal 19 or 20. macrolepis.
12. Scales 41, predorsal 23.
haematocheilus.
2. Branched anal rays 8; pectoral black. vaigiensis.
a2. Oedalechilus. Front of jaws broadly truncate as seen from above; lips
broad and papillate; branched anal rays 9 or 10.
Mugil affinis Günther.
crenilabis.
Mugil affinis Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 433, text fig. (head below). Amoy.-Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (reference).—Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, 1876, p. 385 (Shanghai).—Reeves, Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July- September 1927, p. 8 (reference).—Wu, Contrib. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 5, No. 4, 1929, p. 81 (Amoy).-Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 143 (reference).
The Hong Kong Naturalist.