Mugilidae, Jarocki & Jarocki, 1822

Neumann, Dirk, Obermaier, Henriette & Moritz, Timo, 2016, Annotated checklist for fishes of the Main Nile Basin in the Sudan and Egypt based on recent specimen records (2006 - 2015), Cybium 40 (4), pp. 287-317 : 298

Mugilidae

The records of Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 are tentatively confirmed on photographs taken in the fish market of Cairo in 2013. Subfossil bones of Liza ramada (Risso, 1827) from El Fayum ( Linseele et al., 2014) raise the question if this species was either traded preserved (e.g. salted) by ancient Egyptians or if this species originally reached this location by ascending the Nile.