Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 .

Flathead Mullet, Grey Mullet, or Striped Mullet. To 135 cm (53.1 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002), Sea of Okhotsk, and southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); Humboldt Bay, northern California (Wallace et al. 2015) to Chile and Islas Galápagos (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Coastal, marine, brackish, fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: in sea, intertidal to 122 m (400 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Mugil cephalus appears to be a species complex (Neves et al. 2020).