Genus Myxus Günther, 1861

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Myxus Günther, A. 1861. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 3 586 pp. [466].

  Type species:

   Myxus elongatus Günther, 1861 by subsequent designation, see Jordan, D.S. 1919. The genera of fishes. Part 3. Stanford University Publications, University Series 39: 285-410 [307].

 

Introduction

Thomson (1997) included Mugil capensis from South Africa in this genus, but more recently Durand et al. (2012) separated that species into the genus Pseudomugil. Thomson (1997) also included Trahcystoma petardi in Myxus.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

South-west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

Durand, J.-D., Chen, W.-J., Shen, K.-N., Fu, C. & Borsa, P. 2012. Genus-level taxonomic changes implied by the mitochondrial phylogeny of grey mullets (Teleostei: Mugilidae). Comptes Rendus Biologies [from 2002, formerly Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series III - Sciences de la Vie] 335: 687-697

Thomson, J.M. 1997. The Mugilidae of the world. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41(3): 457-562 fig. 1

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Apr-2015	MUGILIFORMES	10-Aug-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese
		12-Feb-2010	(import)