Mugil cephalus Linnaeus 1758

33. Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 ―Stripped Mullet, Flathead Mullet― Native Taxonomy. Original description: Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758:316 [European sea, Europe; Possible syntypes: NRM 43 (1), 44 (2), 143 (1)]. Synonyms:― Mugil crenilabis our Fabricius,1775; Mugil constantiae Valenciennes,1836; Mugil cephalotus Valenciennes, 1836; Mugil borbonicus Valenciennes,1836. Status in the Arabian Peninsula. First record from Yemen by Attaala & Salem Rubaia (2005); confirmed by Freyhof et al. (2020). General distribution. Nearly circumglobal in temperate and tropical seas and estuaries (including Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, Black Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Sea of Japan); introduced elsewhere. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen: Costal area of the Wadi Hajr. Socotra archipelago (Zajonz 2020). Expected to occur in other coastal area of the Arabian Peninsula. Economic importance. Commercially important. Conservation. Least Concern (LC).Published as part of Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, pp. 201-226 in Zootaxa 5330 (2) on page 215, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/824931