Musculoskeletal Anatomy of the Flathead Grey Mullet Mugil cephalus

The Mugilidae, commonly known as grey mullets, is a speciose family of teleostean fi shes, which includes 20 genera and 81 species (Eschmeyer and Fong 2015). Mullets are small to medium-sized fi shes occurring in various coastal aquatic habitats of the world’s tropical, subtropical and temperate regions in all continents (Harrison and Howes 1991). Most species are euryhaline, inhabiting coastal marine waters, hypersaline to brackish-water lagoons, estuaries and freshwater (González-Castro 2007).