Check List 15(3): 471-478, doi: 10.15560/15.3.471
New records of the Mountain Mullet, Dajaus monticola (Bancroft, 1834), and an overview of historical records in Texas
Kole M. Kubicek‡, Amanda K. Pinion‡, Kevin W. Conway‡‡ Texas A&M University, College Station, United States of America
Corresponding author: Kole M. Kubicek ( kole_135@tamu.edu ) Academic editor: Arturo Angulo © Kole M. Kubicek, Amanda K. Pinion, Kevin W. Conway. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Kubicek KM, Pinion AK, Conway KW (2019) New records of the Mountain Mullet, Dajaus monticola (Bancroft, 1834), and an overview of historical records in Texas. Check List 15(3): 471-478. https://doi.org/10.15560/15.3.471 |  |
Abstract
Dajaus monticola (Bancroft, 1834) is an amphidromous species of mugilid known from South and Central America and the islands of the Caribbean but is rarely collected in Gulf coast states of the United States. Two new records of D. monticola collected from the Gulf of Mexico (Brazoria Co.) and the Brazos River (Washington Co.) are reported from Texas. The rare occurrence of D. monticola in Texas is discussed and diagnostic characters used to distinguish this species from other mugilids found in Texas are reevaluated.
Keywords
Amphidromy, Brazos River, Gulf of Mexico, Mugiliformes