Rhinomugil
Encyclopedia
Rhinomugil is one genus among 17 genera containing all together about 80 species of ray-finned fish of the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Mugilidae
Mullet (fish)
The mullets or grey mullets are a family and order of ray-finned fish found worldwide in coastal temperate and tropical waters, and in some species in fresh water. Mullets have served as an important source of food in Mediterranean Europe since Roman times...

 commonly known as mullet
Mullet (fish)
The mullets or grey mullets are a family and order of ray-finned fish found worldwide in coastal temperate and tropical waters, and in some species in fresh water. Mullets have served as an important source of food in Mediterranean Europe since Roman times...

. The genus Rhinomugil contains two species.

These fish originate from southeastern Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

n fresh water
Fresh Water
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 and brackish water
Brackish water
Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing of seawater with fresh water, as in estuaries, or it may occur in brackish fossil aquifers. The word comes from the Middle Dutch root "brak," meaning "salty"...

 habitats.

Species

2 species in this genus are recorded in Fishbase (March 2007).
(Links in the following table are to Fishbase
FishBase
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entries for species)
Species name (2007) Common name: Bengali-খরশোলা Nominal species (historic)
Rhinomugil corsula Corsula Mugil corsula Hamilton, 1822
Rhinomugil nasutus Shark mullet Mugil nasutus De Vis, 1883
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