Mugil cephalus Linnaeus 1758

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Mugiliformes; Mugilidae; Mugil; Mugil cephalus; Milton; Neves; Okhotsk; Pacific; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603648; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFCBFFEE98EAF8A4FE2930D0

Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758. Flathead Mullet, Grey Mullet, or Striped Mullet . To 135 cm (53.1 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002), Sea of Okhotsk, and southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); Humboldt Bay, northern California (Wallace et al. 2015) to Chile and Islas Galápagos (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Coastal, marine, brackish, fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: in sea, intertidal to 122 m (400 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Mugil cephalus appears to be a species complex (Neves et al. 2020). Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 91, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008