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Chelon

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Chelon

Higher classification
  
Mullet

Order
  
Mugiliformes

Family
  
Mugilidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Genus

Chelon wwwcibsubcatrcsgeneChelonlabrosus021jpg

Similar
  
Thicklip grey mullet, Mullet, Liza, Thinlip mullet, Golden grey mullet

Chelon is a genus of mullets found in coastal marine waters, estuaries and rivers in the Atlantic Ocean and western Indian Ocean.

Contents

Chelon labrosus thick lipped grey mullet hd


Taxonomy

Recent cladistic analysis recovered Chelon as paraphyletic with respect to Liza, so some species of Liza were re-assigned to Chelon and Liza synonymized with Chelon.

Species

  • Chelon aurata (A. Risso, 1810) (Golden grey mullet)
  • Chelon bandialensis Diouf, 1991 (Diassanga mullet)
  • Chelon bispinosus (S. Bowdich, 1825) (Cape Verde mullet)
  • Chelon dumerili (Steindachner, 1870) (Grooved mullet)
  • Chelon labrosus (A. Risso, 1827) (Thicklip grey mullet)
  • Chelon luciae (M. L. Penrith & M. J. Penrith, 1967) (Saint Lucia mullet)
  • Chelon parsia (Hamilton, 1822) (Goldspot mullet)
  • Chelon ramada (A. Risso, 1827) (Thinlip grey mullet)
  • Chelon richardsonii (A. Smith, 1846) (South African mullet)
  • Chelon saliens (A. Risso, 1810) (Leaping mullet)
  • Chelon tricuspidens (J. L. B. Smith, 1935) (Striped mullet)

    • References

    Chelon Wikipedia
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