Mugil setosus Gilbert, 1892

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 92

Mugil setosus Gilbert, 1892 .

Liseta Mullet. Because the previous reported maximum length record, 91 cm ( 15.8 in) TL ( McEachran and Fechhelm 1998), likely represents Mugil curema , the maximum size of this species is unclear. The largest specimen in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection is 39 cm ( 15.4 in) SL. Mission Creek, Santa Barbara County, southern California (Camm Swift, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Chile (Harrison in Fischer et al. 1995), including Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2002), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Shallow marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Harrison in Fischer et al. 1995, Argulo et al. 2020); depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 25 m ( 82 ft) (min.: Thomson and Lehner 1976; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996). We note that Britzke et al. (2019) determined that fish identified as “ Mugil curema Valenciennes, 1836 ” from the eastern Pacific are, in fact, Mugil setosus Gilbert, 1892 . Their work, and that of Menezes et al. (2015), limit the geographic range of M. curema to the western South Atlantic. Further research ( Neves et al. 2020) suggests that Mugil curema is a species complex.