Chaenomugil

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chaenomugil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Mugiliformes
Family: Mugilidae
Genus: Chaenomugil

Chaenomugil 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 Chaenomugil contains just one species.

[edit] Species

  • The Snouted mullet Chaenomugil proboscideus

Only one species in this genus is recorded in Fishbase (March 2007). (Links in the following table are to Fishbase entries for species)

Species name (2007) Common name Nominal species (historic)
Chaenomugil proboscideus Snouted mullet Mugil proboscideus Günther, 1861