''Mugil'' is a

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of mullet in the

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Mugilidae The mullets or grey mullets are a family (Mugilidae) of ray-finned fish found worldwide in coastal temperate and tropical waters, and some species in fresh water. Mullets have served as an important source of food in Mediterranean Europe since R ...

found worldwide in tropical and temperate coastal marine waters, but also entering

estuaries An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environm ...

and rivers.

Species

There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus: * '' Mugil bananensis'' Pellegrin, 1927 (Banana mullet) * '' Mugil brevirostris'' A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915 * '' Mugil broussonnetii''

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, 1836 (Broussonnet's mullet) * '' Mugil capurrii''

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, 1892 (Leaping African mullet) * ''

Mugil cephalus The flathead grey mullet (''Mugil cephalus'') is an important food fish species in the mullet family Mugilidae. It is found in coastal temperate, tropical and subtropical waters worldwide. Its length is typically . It is known with numerous En ...

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...

(Flathead grey mullet) * '' Mugil curema''

, 1836 (White mullet) * ''

Mugil curvidens ''Mugil'' is a genus of Mullet (fish), mullet in the family (biology), family Mugilidae found worldwide in tropical and temperate coastal marine waters, but also entering estuaries and rivers. Species There are currently 16 recognized species in ...

, 1836 (Dwarf mullet) * '' Mugil gaimardianus'' Desmarest, 1831 (Redeye mullet) * '' Mugil galapagensis'' Ebeling, 1961 (Galapagos mullet) * '' Mugil hospes'' D. S. Jordan & Culver, 1895 (Hospe mullet) * '' Mugil incilis'' Hancock, 1830 (Parassi mullet) * '' Mugil liza''

, 1836 (Lebranche mullet) * '' Mugil longicauda'' Guitart & Alvarez-Lojonchere, 1976 * '' Mugil margaritae'' Menezes, Nirchio, C. de Oliveira & Siccha-Ramirez, 2015 * '' Mugil rubrioculus'' I. J. Harrison, Nirchio, C. de Oliveira,

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, 2007 * '' Mugil setosus'' C. H. Gilbert, 1892 (Liseta mullet) * '' Mugil thoburni'' D.S. Jordan & Starks, 1896 (Thoburn's mullet) * '' Mugil trichodon'' Poey, 1875 (Fantail mullet) The oldest known member of the family is †'' Mugil princeps''

Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he recei ...

, 1843 from the latest

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-aged Aix-en-Provence Formation of France. When calibrated with this fossil species, molecular phylogenies suggest that the modern evolutionary radiation of ''Mugil'' arose about 30 million years ago.

References

Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Mugilidae-stub Extant Chattian first appearances Chattian genus first appearances