Mugil

Mugil Temporal range: Late Oligocene to Present [1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Mugil cephalus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Mugiliformes
Family:	Mugilidae
Genus:	Mugil Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
Arnion Gistel, 1848 ElloGistel, 1848 Querimana D.S. Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 Xenomugil Schultz, 1946

Mugil is a genus of mullet in the 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 this genus: ^[2]

• Mugil bananensis Pellegrin, 1927 (Banana mullet)
• Mugil brevirostris A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915 ^[3]
• Mugil broussonnetii Valenciennes, 1836 (Broussonnet's mullet)
• Mugil capurrii Perugia, 1892 (Leaping African mullet)
• Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 (Flathead grey mullet)
• Mugil curema Valenciennes, 1836 (White mullet)
• Mugil curvidens Valenciennes, 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 Valenciennes, 1836 (Lebranche mullet)
• Mugil longicauda Guitart & Alvarez-Lojonchere, 1976
• Mugil margaritae Menezes, Nirchio, C. de Oliveira & Siccha-Ramirez, 2015 ^[3]
• Mugil rubrioculus I. J. Harrison, Nirchio, C. de Oliveira, Ron & Gaviria, 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, 1843 from the latest Oligocene-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. ^{[4] [5]}

References

1. Sepkoski, J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Mugil". FishBase . June 2018 version.
3. Menezes, N.A.; Nirchio, M.; De Oliveira, C.; Siccharamirez, R. (2015). "Taxonomic review of the species of Mugil (Teleostei: Perciformes: Mugilidae) from the Atlantic South Caribbean and South America, with integration of morphological, cytogenetic and molecular data". Zootaxa. 3918 (1): 1–38. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.1.1. PMID   25781080.
4. Neves, Jessika M. M.; Almeida, JoÃo P. F. A.; Sturaro, Marcelo J.; FabrÉ, Nidia N.; Pereira, Ricardo J.; Mott, TamÍ (2020-02-17). "Deep genetic divergence and paraphyly in cryptic species of Mugil fishes (Actinopterygii: Mugilidae)". Systematics and Biodiversity. 18 (2): 116–128. doi:10.1080/14772000.2020.1729892. ISSN   1477-2000.
5. Gaudant, Jean; Nel, André; Nury, Denise; Véran, Monette; Carnevale, Giorgio (2018-08-01). "The uppermost Oligocene of Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône, Southern France): A Cenozoic brackish subtropical Konservat-Lagerstätte, with fishes, insects and plants". Comptes Rendus Palevol. Lagerstätten 2: Exceptionally preserved fossils Lagerstätten 2 : fossiles à conservation exceptionnelle. 17 (7): 460–478. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2017.08.002. ISSN   1631-0683.