Chelon

Genus of ray-finned fishes

Chelon

Thicklip Grey Mullet (C. labrosus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Mugiliformes
Family:  | Mugilidae
Genus:  | Chelon
Artedi, 1793[1]
Type species
Mugil chelo

Cuvier, 1829[2]

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

## Anatomy

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Chelon possesses the elongated body and dorsal fins typical of the order Mugiliformes, with frontal fins defined by four spines and anal fins with soft rays. The maximum sizes described vary between 15 cm for the Cape Verde mullet and 32 cm for the thicklip grey mullet.[3]

## Habitat

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They are catadromous fishes, meaning that they can be found in lagoons and rivers as well as the sea during the reproductive season, fundamentally feeding on algae and diatoms.[4]

## Taxonomy

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Recent cladistic analysis recovered Chelon as paraphyletic with respect to Liza, so some species of Liza were reassigned to Chelon and Liza synonymized with Chelon.[5][6]

### Species

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The following species are classified in the genus Chelon:[7]

* 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 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)

## See also

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* Planiliza

## References

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1. ^ Artedi P. (1793). Ichth., syn., 118.
2. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Chelon". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
3. ^ Thomson, J.M., 1990. "Mugilidae". p. 855-859. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post & L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2.
4. ^ Ben-Tuvia, A., 1986. "Mugilidae", pp. 1197-1204. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen & E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. Volume 3. UNESCO, Paris.
5. ^ Durand, J.-D., Shen, K.-N., Chen, W.-J., Jamandre, B.-W., Blel, H., Diop, K., et al. 2012. Systematics of the grey mullets (Teleostei: Mugiliformes: Mugilidae): molecular phylogenetic evidence challenges two centuries of morphology-based taxonomy. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 64, 73–92. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.03.006
6. ^ Durand, J.-D., W.-J. Chen, K.-N. Shen, C. Fu, & P. Borsa. 2012. Genus-level taxonomic changes implied b mitochondrial phylogeny of grey mullets (Teleostei: Mugilidae). Comptes Rendus Biologies, 335: 687-697.
7. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Chelon". FishBase. June 2018 version.

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Mugiliformes species (Mullets)

* Kingdom Animalia
* Phylum Chordata
* Class Actinopterygii
* Order Mugiliformes

| Mugilidae|

| Agonostomus|

* Comoro mullet (A. catalai)
* Fairy mullet (A. telfairii)

|

Aldrichetta|

* Yellow-eye mullet (A. forsteri)

Cestraeus|

* Cestraeus goldiei
* Cestraeus oxyrhyncus
* Lobed river mullet (C. plicatilis)

Chaenomugil|

* Snouted mullet (C. proboscideus)

Chelon|

* Golden grey mullet (C. auratus)
* Cape Verde mullet (C. bispinosus)
* Diassanga mullet (C. bandialensis)
* Chelon caeruleus
* Grooved mullet (C. dumerili)
* Thicklip grey mullet (C. labrosus)
* Chelon natalensis
* Thinlip grey mullet (C. ramada)
* South African mullet (C. richardsonii)
* Leaping mullet (C. saliens)
* Striped mullet (C. tricuspidens)

Crenimugil|

* Bluetail mullet (C. buchanani)
* Fringelip mullet (C. crenilabis)
* Half fringelip mullet (C. heterocheilos)
* Longfin mullet (C. pedaraki)
* Bluespot mullet (C. seheli)

Dajaus|

* Mountain mullet (D. monticola)

Ellochelon|

* Squaretail mullet (E. vaigiensis)

Gracimugil|

* Flat-tail mullet (G. argenteus)

Joturus|

* Bobo mullet (J. pichardi)

Minimugil|

* Yellowtail mullet (M. cascasia)

Mugil|

* Banana mullet (M. bananensis)
* Mugil brevirostris
* Broussonnet's mullet (M. broussonnetii)
* Leaping African mullet (M. capurrii)
* Flathead grey mullet (M. cephalus)
* White mullet (M. curema)
* Dwarf mullet (M. curvidens)
* Redeye mullet (M. gaimardianus)
* Galapagos mullet (M. galapagensis)
* Hospe mullet (M. hospes)
* Parassi mullet (M. incilis)
* Lebranche mullet (M. liza)
* Mugil margaritae
* Mugil rubrioculus
* Liseta mullet (M. setosus)
* Thoburn's mullet (M. thoburni)
* Mugil trichodon

Myxus|

* Sand grey mullet (M. elongatus)

Neochelon|

* Sicklefin mullet (N. falcipinnis)

Neomyxus|

* Acute-jawed mullet (N. leuciscus)

Oedalechilus|

* Boxlip mullet (O. labeo)

Osteomugil|

* Longarm mullet (O. cunnesius)
* Kanda (O. engeli)
* Osteomugil formosae
* Longfinned mullet (O. perusii)
* Robust mullet (O. robustus)
* Speigler's mullet (O. speigleri)

Parachelon|

* Largescaled mullet (P. grandisquamis)

Paramugil|

* Silver mullet (P. georgii)
* Broad-mouthed mullet (P. parmatus)

Planiliza|

* Abu mullet (P. abu)
* Eastern keelback mullet (P. affinis)
* Diamond mullet (P. alata)
* Keeled mullet (P. carinata)
* So-iuy mullet (P. haematocheilus)
* Klunzinger's mullet (P. klunzingeri)
* Largescale mullet (P. macrolepis)
* Saint Lucia mullet (P. melinoptera)
* Indian mullet (P. mandapamensis)
* Planiliza ordensis
* Gold-spot mullet (P. parsia)
* Persian mullet (P. persicus)
* Tade gray mullet (P. planiceps)
* Greenback mullet (P. subviridis)
* Planiliza tade

Plicomugil|

* Hornlip mullet (P. labiosus)

Pseudomyxus|

* Freshwater mullet (P. capensis)

Rhinomugil|

* Corsula (R. corsula)

Sicamugil|

* Burmese mullet (S. hamiltonii)

Squalomugil|

* Shark mullet (S. nasutus)

Trachystoma|

* Pinkeye mullet (T. petardi)

Taxon identifiers

Chelon|

* Wikidata: Q660637
* Wikispecies: Chelon
* ADW: Chelon
* BOLD: 86780
* CoL: 3MP3
* EPPO: 1CHLNG
* Fauna Europaea: 304785
* Fauna Europaea (new): 28cff332-0619-4215-a30f-773a73d04e58
* GBIF: 2400862
* iNaturalist: 87396
* IRMNG: 1432317
* ITIS: 170363
* NBN: NHMSYS0021053354
* NCBI: 48170
* Paleobiology Database: 332739
* Plazi: 77A171A4-3963-E42F-5156-4636C9802B98
* WoRMS: 126030
* ZooBank: 0B5DF860-C970-4D95-BB0A-C67FB041DA13

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