Joturus

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

Joturus 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 Joturus contains just one species.

[edit] Species

  • Bobo mullet Joturus pichardi

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)
Joturus pichardi Bobo mullet Agonostoma globiceps Günther, 1874; Joturus stipes Jordan & Gilbert, 1882; Juturus globiceps (Günther, 1874); Joturus pichardi Poey, 1860