Mugil liza Valenciennes 1836

Ceríaco, Luis M. P., Santos, Bruna S., Semedo, Thiago B. F., Garcia, Lucas Canes & Moreira, Cristiano Rangel, 2023, The fish collection of José Mariano da Conceição Veloso (1742 - 1811) and the beginning of ichthyological research in Brazil, with a taxonomic description of the extant specimens, Zootaxa 5391 (1), pp. 1-85 : 34

Mugil liza Valenciennes 1836

Extant specimens: MCUC ZOO.0000028 ( Fig. 21a ) and MCUC ZOO.0000063 ( Fig. 21b ).

Classification on the specimen: “P. Abd. Mugil albula ”

Common names on the specimen (Portuguese/Tupi): “Parati”/ Curemá.

Comments: This species was undescribed at the time Veloso prepared it. Mugil albula Linnaeus 1766 , is currently considered a synonym of M. cephalus . Twenty herborized specimens are listed in the Ajuda’s inventory ( Ferreira 1794), and two specimens identified as M. albula were transferred to the University of Coimbra, which can be the specimens analyzed here. No specimen of Mugil appears in the transference list to Lisboa. There is a description of M. albula in the Ichthyologia Fluminensis manuscript. Mugil liza occurs in the Western Atlantic on Bermuda and from Cuba to Rio de Janeiro ( Brazil) (Menezes & Figueiredo 1985; Harrison 2002).

Order Cichliformes

Figures

FIGURE 21. Mugil liza Valenciennes 1836; a: MCUC ZOO.0000028, 385 mm SL; b: MCUC ZOO.0000063, 235 mm SL. Photos by Luis M. P. Ceríaco.