The Mullets
Body oblong, more or less compressed, covered with rather large, cycloid scales; no lateral line, but the furrows often deepened on the middle of each scale so as to form lateral streaks; mouth small, the jaws with small teeth, or none, various in form; premaxillaries protractile; gill-openings wide, the membranes separate, free from the isthmus; branchiostegals 5 or 6; gillrakers long and slender; pseudobranchiae large; two short dorsal fins, well separated, the anterior of 4 stiff spines, the last one of which is much shorter than the others; second dorsal longer than the first, similar to anal; anal spines 2 or 3, graduated; ventral fins abdominal, not far back; caudal forked; air-bladder large and simple; intestine long; peritoneum usually black.
- Liza; Lebrancho; Queriman Mugil brasiliensis Agassiz
Common Mullet; Striped Mullet Mugil cephalus Linnaeus- Trench Mullet Mugil incilis Hancock
- Galapagos Mullet Mugil thoburni Jordan & Starks
White Mullet; Blue-back Mullet; Liza Blanca Mugil curema Cuvier & Valenciennes
Lisita Mugil hospes Jordan & Culver- Red-eye Mullet; Liza Ojo de Perdriz Mugil gaimardianus Desmarest