Neomyxus
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 Neomyxus chaptalii
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Neomyxus is one genus among 17 genera containing altogether about 80 species of ray-finned fish of the family Mugilidae commonly known as mullet. The genus Neomyxus contains two species.
[edit] Species
- Acute-jawed mullet Neomyxus leuciscus
- Neomyxus chaptalii
2 species in this genus are recorded in Fishbase (March 2007). (Links in the following table are to Fishbase entries for species)
| Species name (2007) | Common name | Nominal species (historic) |
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| Neomyxus  chaptalii | Chaenomugil nauticus Bryan & Herre, 1903; Mugil chaptalii Eydoux & Souleyet, 1850 | |
| Neomyxus leuciscus | Acute-jawed mullet | Myxus leuciscus Günther, 1872; Myxus sclateri Steindachner, 1878; Neomyxus sclateri (Steindachner, 1878) |
