Mugilidae

Familia:

Subfamiliae: Cheloninae - Mugilinae - Myxinae - Rhinomugilinae

Genera (19): Agonostomus – Aldrichetta – Cestraeus – Chaenomugil – Chelon – Crenimugil – Joturus – Liza – Moolgarda – Mugil – Myxus – Neomyxus – Oedalechilus – Paramugil – Rhinomugil – Sicamugil – Trachystoma – Valamugil – Xenomugil

Mugilidae Jarocki, 1822

• Type genus: Mugil Linnaeus, 1758

• Lépidopomes Duméril, 1805:142
• Cyrtocephala Goldfuss, 1820:VI, 32
• Mugiloides Jarocki, 1822:27
• Agonostominae Jordan & Evermann, 1896:809
  • Agonostomatidae Jordan & Evermann, 1896
• Mugiloididae Jordan, 1923:229
• Cestraeinae Popov, 1931:124

• Harrison, I. J. 2003 (dated 2002). Mugilidae (1071–1085). In K. E. Carpenter (Ed.), The living marine resources of the western central Atlantic, FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. Vol. 2. FAO, Rome. [1]
• Hasan, A. & Siddiqui, P.J. 2020. Taxonomic study of the family Mugilidae from Pakistan coast (northern Arabian Sea). Zootaxa 4881(1): 131–151. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.1.8 Reference page. 
• Jarocki, F.P. 1822. Zoologiia czyli zwiérzetopismo ogólne podlug náynowszego systematu ułożone. T.4: Ryby. Drukarni Łątkiewicza, Warszawa (Warsaw). 4: i-iv + 1- 464 + i-xxvii, 4 pls. Full book Reference page. 
• Joseph S. Nelson: Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, 2006. ISBN 0-471-25031-7.
• Tran Thi Viet Thanh, Phan Ke Long & Deivasisamani, B., 2015: The taxonomy key for Mugilidae in Vietnam. Tap Chi Sinh Hoc, 37 (1)Reference page. 
• Wainwright, P.C., Smith, W.L., Price, S.A., Tang, K.L., Sparks, J.S., Ferry, L.A., Kuhn, K.L., Eytan, R.I. & Near, T.J. 2012. The evolution of pharyngognathy: a phylogenetic and functional appraisal of the pharyngeal jaw key innovation in labroid fishes and beyond. Systematic biology 61(6): 1001–1027. PDF. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys060 Reference page. 
• Xia, R., Durand, J.-D. & Fu, C. 2016. Multilocus resolution of Mugilidae phylogeny (Teleostei: Mugiliformes): Implications for the family’s taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 96: 161–177. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.12.010 Reference page. 

• Mugilidae  and its species in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Genera of Mugilidae (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Mugilidae – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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