Chelon

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Ovalentaria
Superordo: Mugilomorphae
Ordo: Mugiliformes

Familia: Mugilidae
Genus: Chelon
Species: C. bispinosus – C. labrosus – C. macrolepis
Name

Chelon Artedi in Röse, 1793
Vernacular names
日本語: メナダ属

Gender: masculine

Type species: Mugil chelo Cuvier, 1829, by subsequent designation by Jordan, 1917.
References

Röse, A. F. (1793) Petri Artedi Angermannia--Sueci synonymia nominum piscium fere omnium;... Ichthyologiae pars IV. Editio II. Grypeswaldiae. Ichthyologiae pars IV.: i-ii + 1-140.

Links

Chelon – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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

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

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

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

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

Planiliza

References

Artedi P. (1793). Ichth., syn., 118.
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Chelon". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
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.
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.
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
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.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Chelon in FishBase. June 2018 version.