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A 20-inch striped mullet,Mugil cephalus, with two anal spines taken in winter from Chesapeake Bay, Maryland

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An unusually large but slender striped mullet was taken from a depth of 80 feet in a drift gillnet in the main estuarine channel off Calvert County, Maryland in December, 1961. The female, with flaccid ovaries indicating a recently spent condition, was a typical adult ofM. cephalus, except for two anal spines instead of the adult number of three. It is apparently the largest specimen, and first ever recorded during winter, from Chesapeake Bay, and the first adult with the low number of anal spines.

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  1. Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, Maryland

    Romeo J. Mansueti

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Contribution No. 203, Natural Resources Institute of the University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, Maryland.

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Mansueti, R.J. A 20-inch striped mullet,Mugil cephalus, with two anal spines taken in winter from Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. Chesapeake Science 3, 135–137 (1962). https://doi.org/10.2307/1351228

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