Belgian Register of Marine Species - Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758

BeRMS taxon details

Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 126983

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Pisces > Actinopterygii > Mugiliformes > Mugilidae > Mugil

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Typetaxon of

Mugil Linnaeus, 1758

Parent

Mugil Linnaeus, 1758

Sources

original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100
page(s): 316 [details]

basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

additional source: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details]

additional source: Welshman, D., S. Kohler, J. Black and L. Van Guelpen. 2003. An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details]

additional source: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
Albanian	cumraku	[details]
Albanian	cumri	[details]
Albanian	gushtaku	[details]
Albanian	qefulli i verës	[details]
Basque	korrokoi bizkarbeltz	[details]
Basque	lazuna	[details]
Breton	meilh bihen	[details]
Catalan	llissa llobarrera	[details]
Corsican	mazzardu	[details]
Corsican	muzaru	[details]
Dutch	harder	[details]
English	flathead grey mullet	[details]
English	flathead mullet	[details]
English	grey mullet	[details]
English	striped mullet	[details]
French	meuille	[details]
French	muge	[details]
French	muge cephale	[details]
French	mulet à grosse tête	[details]
French	mulet cabot	[details]
French	petit mulet gris	[details]
German	Großkopfmeeräsche	[details]
Hebrew	קיפון בורי	[details]
Hebrew	קיפון גדול-ראש	[details]
Italian	cefalo	[details]
Lithuanian	didžiagalvė kefalė	[details]
Modern Greek (1453-)	Κέφαλος	[details]
Polish	cefal pospolity	[details]
Portuguese	curimã	[details]
Portuguese	fataca	[details]
Portuguese	mugem	[details]
Romanian	chefal	[details]
Russian	Кефаль лобан	[details]
Russian	лобан	[details]
Slovenian	glavati cipelj	[details]
Spanish	mújol	[details]
Spanish	pardete	[details]
Turkish	has kefal	[details]
Ukrainian	Кефаль лобань	[details]
Ukrainian	Кефаль-лобан	[details]

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Distribution

Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Black Sea [details]
Chagos [details]
Egypt [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mozambique [details]
Mtwapa [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tanzania [details]
Ungama Bay [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Australia [details]
Western Indian Ocean [details]

Host of

Ergasilus lizae Krøyer, 1863 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Nipergasilus bora (Yamaguti, 1939) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Colobomatus mugilis Raibaut, Caillet & Ben Hassine, 1978 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Colobomatus mugilis Raibaut, Caillet & Ben Hassine, 1978 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Caligus minimus Otto, 1821 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus pageti Russell, 1925 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Pseudocaligus apodus Brian, 1924 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaeenicus vorax Richiardi, 1877 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaeolophus sultanus (Milne Edwards, 1840) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaeenicus longiventris Wilson C.B., 1917 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus rufimaculatus Wilson C.B., 1905 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus mugilis Brian, 1935 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Brachiella oblonga Valle, 1881 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Bomolochus chalguanus Fernandez, 1987 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Bomolochus concinnus Wilson C.B., 1911 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Bomolochus nitidus Wilson C.B., 1911 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus bombayensis Rangnekar, 1955 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus engraulidis Barnard, 1948 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus epidemicus Hewitt, 1971 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus orientalis Gusev, 1951 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus platytarsis Bassett-Smith, 1898 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus punctatus Shiino, 1955 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus rotundigenitalis Yü, 1933 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Colobomatus deltotus West, 1985 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Dermoergasilus amplectens (Dogiel & Akhmerov, 1952) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Dermoergasilus mugilis Oldewage & van As, 1988 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus amplectens Dogiel & Akhmerov, 1952 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus cyanopictus Carvalho, 1962 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus fryeri Paperna, 1964 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus ilani Oldewage & van As, 1988 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus mugilis Vogt, 1877 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus versicolor Wilson C.B., 1911 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lepeophtheirus hospitalis Fraser, 1920 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lepeophtheirus kareii Yamaguti, 1936 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernanthropsis mugilii (Shishido, 1898) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Pseudolepeophtheirus mediterraneus Paperna, 1964 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernanthropus shishidoi Shiino, 1955 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus irritans Heller, 1865 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Naobranchia lizae (Krøyer, 1863) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Neobrachiella exilis (Shiino, 1956) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus nanus Beneden, 1870 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus longimanus Kroyer, 1863 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaea cyprinacea Linnaeus, 1758 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernanthropus mugilii Shishido, 1898 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Nothobomolochus teres (Wilson C.B., 1911) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Therodamas frontalis El-Rashidy & Boxshall, 2001 (parasite)
Therodamas frontalis El-Rashidy & Boxshall, 2001 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Paraergasilus dichotomus El-Rashidy & Boxshall, 2001 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus pagrosomi schlegeli Ho & Lin, 2003 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Diergasilus kasaharai Do, 1981 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)

Links

To Barcode of Life (109 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (582 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Cultured Aquatic species fact sheets
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To GenBank (916 nucleotides; 482 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS

Images

Mugil cephalus
added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Mugil cephalus
added on 2010-02-18 - author: Collection VLIZ
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