Neomyxus

Neomyxus
Neomyxus chaptalii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Mugiliformes
Family:	Mugilidae
Genus:	Neomyxus

Neomyxus is one genus among 17 genera containing altogether about 80 species of ray-finned fish of the family Mugilidae commonly known as mullet. The genus Neomyxus contains two species.

Species

• Acute-jawed mullet Neomyxus leuciscus
• Neomyxus chaptalii

2 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)
Neomyxus  chaptalii		Chaenomugil nauticus Bryan & Herre, 1903; Mugil chaptalii Eydoux & Souleyet, 1850
Neomyxus leuciscus	Acute-jawed mullet	Myxus leuciscus Günther, 1872; Myxus sclateri Steindachner, 1878; Neomyxus sclateri (Steindachner, 1878)