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Common Name: striped mullet
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Miller and Lea (1972); Eschmeyer et al. (1983); Robins and Ray (1986); Etnier and Starnes (1993); Fischer et al. (1995b).
Size: 91 cm.
Native Range: Marine ascending into freshwaters. Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Native
range generalized as world-wide in coastal waters from 42°N to 42°S
(Collins 1985 in Gilbert 1993). Gilbert (1993) gave an update on the
distribution of the striped mullet in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific
oceans. San Francisco Bay to Chile and Galapagos Islands; rare north of
southern California (Eschmeyer et al. 1983; Gilbert 1993) in the
Pacific. Nova Scotia to Tampico, Mexico, but absent from Bahamas and
most of the West Indies and Caribbean in the western Atlantic (Gilbert
1993). Throughout the Mediterranean and Black seas, the islands of
Madeira and the Azores, and the west coast of Africa to Ghana or
possibly Togo, in the eastern Pacific. Southwestern Indian Ocean
(Gilbert 1993). Previous reports from the Atlantic side of the Cape of
Good Hope in Africa, the West Indies, and the Atlantic coasts of
Central and South America are erroneous (Gilbert 1993). Etnier and
Starnes (1993) mapped inland range in the United States including
Mississippi River as far north as Illinois/Kentucky, and Kentucky
Reservoir, Tennessee; also the Red River in Texas/Oklahoma.
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Nonindigenous Occurrences: Introduced into Salton Sea, California, in 1950 (Walker et al. 1961; Dill and Cordone 1997).
Means of Introduction: Intentionally stocked. Fifteen fish from San Felipe, Mexico, were stocked (Walker et al. 1961).
Status: The introduction failed to produce a viable population and the species is extirpated in the Salton Sea.
Impact of Introduction: Unknown.
Remarks: None.
Dill, W. A., and A. J. Cordone. 1997. History and status of introduced fishes in California, 1871--1996. Manuscript for Fish Bulletin of the California Department of Fish and Game 178.
Eschmeyer, W. N., E. S. Herald, and H. Hamann. 1983. A field guide to Pacific Coast fishes of North America. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA.
Etnier, D. A., and W. C. Starnes. 1993. The fishes of Tennessee. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN.
Fischer, W., F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K. E. Carpenter, V. H. Niem. 1995b. Guía FAO para la identificatión de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volumen III. Vertebrados - Parte 2. Vol. III: 1201--1813. Roma, FAO.
Gilbert, C. R. 1993. Geographic distribution of the striped mullet in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans. Florida Scientist 56(4):204--210.
Miller, D. J., and R. N. Lea. 1972. Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. Fish Bulletin of the California Department of Fish and Game 157:1--235.
Robins, C. R., and G. C. Ray. 1986. A field guide to Atlantic Coast fishes of North America. The Peterson Guide Series, volume 32. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA.
Walker, B. W., R. R. Whitney, and G. W. Barlow. 1961. Fishes of the Salton Sea. Pages 77--92 in B. W. Walker, editor. The ecology of the Salton Sea, California, in relation to the sport fishery of California. Fish Bulletin of the California Department of Fish and Game 113.
Other Resources:
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Pam Fuller
Revision Date: 7/10/2000 Citation for this information:
Pam Fuller. 2009. Mugil cephalus. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=788> Revision Date: 7/10/2000
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