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Myxus 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 Myxus contains four species.
[edit] Species
- Freshwater mullet Myxus capensis
- Sand grey mullet Myxus elongatus
- Myxus multidens
- Myxus petardi
4 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) |
| Myxus capensis |
Freshwater mullet |
Mugil euronotus Smith, 1846; Mugil capensis Valenciennes, 1836; Trachystoma euronotus (Smith, 1846) |
| Myxus elongatus |
Sand grey mullet |
Myxus elongatus Günther, 1861 |
| Myxus multidens |
|
Trachystoma multidens Ogilby, 1888 |
| Myxus petardi |
|
Mugil petardi Castelnau, 1875 |
