Xenomugil

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

Xenomugil 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 Xenomugil contains just one species.

[edit] Species

  • Thoburn's mullet Xenomugil thoburni

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)
Xenomugil thoburni Thoburn's mullet Mugil thoburni Jordan & Starks, 1896