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Cestraeus is one genus among 17 genera containing altogether about 80 species of ray-finned fish of the family Mugilidae commonly known as mullet. The genus Cestraeus contains three species.
[edit] Species
- The Goldie river mullet Cestraeus goldiei
- The Lobed river mullet Cestraeus plicatilis
- The Sharp-nosed river mullet Cestraeus oxyrhyncus
3 species in this genus are recorded in Fishbase (March 2007). (Links in the following table are to Fishbase entries for species.)
| Species name (2007) |
Common name |
Nominal species (historic) |
| Cestraeus goldiei |
Goldie river mullet |
Aeschrichthys goldiei Macleay, 1883 |
| Cestraeus oxyrhyncus |
Sharp-nosed river mullet |
Cestraeus oxyrhynchus Valenciennes, 1836; Cestraeus oxyrhyncus Valenciennes, 1836 |
| Cestraeus plicatilis |
Lobed river mullet |
Cestraeus plicatilis Valenciennes, 1836 |
