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Definition of Genus Mugil

1. Noun. Type genus of the Mugilidae: mullets.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mugil

Literary usage of Genus Mugil

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"The terms applied to the species of the genus Mugil in Germany are Meeräsche, ... The history of these Mullets of the genus Mugil is to some extent ..."

2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1864)
"Genus MUGIL (Linn). From this genus, I would exclude the Mugil proboscideus of Günther and the M. ..."

3. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"... mullet of tropical America, ranging occasionally northward, and several other species occur in the West Indies and the Mediterranean. The genus Mugil ..."

4. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Genus MUGIL Linnaeus. Mullets. In this genus the form is robust, the body only slightly compressed, the back and belly rounded; the head obtuse, broad, ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"... comprises the young of the genus Mugil. At a certain period in their lives the young mullets pass through a gradual change which gives them the full ..."

6. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... 257 genus Mugil LINN^US The Mullets This genus of well-known fishes is sufficiently characterized above. a. Soft dorsal and anal almost naked; ..."

7. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"... the genus MUGIL is supposed to derive its name from the contraction of two Latin words, signifying very agile (Multum ..."

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