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Neomyxus chaptalii | ||||||||||||
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Neomyxus is one genus among 17 genera containing altogether about 80 species of ray-finned fish of the family Mugilidae commonly known as mullet. Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates The Actinopterygii (the plural form of Actinopterygius) comprise the class of the ray-finned fishes. The taxonomic order Mugiliformes of Vertebrate Fish contains the single family Mugilidae, the mullets There are other meanings of the word Mullet. There are other fishes called 'mullets' notably the Red mullets ' A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic The Actinopterygii (the plural form of Actinopterygius) comprise the class of the ray-finned fishes. In Biological classification, family ( Latin There are other meanings of the word Mullet. There are other fishes called 'mullets' notably the Red mullets ' There are other meanings of the word Mullet. There are other fishes called 'mullets' notably the Red mullets ' The genus Neomyxus contains two species.
2 species in this genus are recorded in Fishbase (March 2007). (Links in the following table are to Fishbase entries for species)
| Species name (2007) | Common name | Nominal species (historic) |
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| Neomyxus  chaptalii | Chaenomugil nauticus Bryan & Herre, 1903; Mugil chaptalii Eydoux & Souleyet, 1850 | |
| Neomyxus leuciscus | Acute-jawed mullet | Myxus leuciscus Günther, 1872; Myxus sclateri Steindachner, 1878; Neomyxus sclateri (Steindachner, 1878) |