Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758

Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, Zootaxa 5330 (2), pp. 201-226 : 215

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scientific name	Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758
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33. Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL View at ENA ―Stripped Mullet, Flathead Mullet― Native

Taxonomy. Original description: Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758:316 View in CoL [ European sea, Europe ; Possible syntypes: NRM 43 (1), 44 (2), 143 (1) ]. Synonyms:― Mugil crenilabis View in CoL our Fabricius,1775; Mugil constantiae Valenciennes,1836 ; Mugil cephalotus Valenciennes, 1836 View in CoL ; Mugil borbonicus Valenciennes,1836 View in CoL .

Status in the Arabian Peninsula. First record from Yemen by Attaala & Salem Rubaia (2005); confirmed by Freyhof et al. (2020).

General distribution. Nearly circumglobal in temperate and tropical seas and estuaries (including Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, Black Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Sea of Japan); introduced elsewhere. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen: Costal area of the Wadi Hajr. Socotra archipelago (Zajonz 2020). Expected to occur in other coastal area of the Arabian Peninsula.

Economic importance. Commercially important.

Conservation. Least Concern (LC).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Order	Mugiliformes
Family	Mugilidae
Genus	Mugil