Cestraeus

Cestraeus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Mugiliformes
Family:	Mugilidae
Genus:	Cestraeus
Species
3 recognized species, see article.

Cestraeus is one of the 17 genera of the family Mugilidae (commonly known as mullet). Altogether, these genera have about 80 species of ray-finned fish. The genus Cestraeus itself contains only three species.

Species

• Goldie river mullet (Cestraeus goldiei)
• Lobed river mullet (Cestraeus plicatilis)
• Sharp-nosed river mullet (Cestraeus oxyrhyncus)

3 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)
Cestraeus goldiei	Goldie river mullet	Aeschrichthys goldiei Macleay, 1883
Cestraeus oxyrhyncus	Sharp-nosed river mullet	Cestraeus oxyrhynchus Valenciennes, 1836; Cestraeus oxyrhyncus Valenciennes, 1836
Cestraeus plicatilis	Lobed river mullet	Cestraeus plicatilis Valenciennes, 1836