Mugiliformes

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title: "Mugiliformes" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["mugiliformes", "ray-finned-fish-orders", "taxa-named-by-albert-günther"] description: "Order of fishes" topic_path: "general/mugiliformes" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugiliformes" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Order of fishes ::

| fossil_range = | image = Yellow-eye mullet (Aldrichetta forsteri) Sydney Zoo 2023-02-05.jpg | image_caption = Yellow-eye mullet (Aldrichetta forsteri) | taxon = Mugiliformes | authority = Günther, 1880 | subdivision =

• Mugilidae
• Ambassidae

Mugiliformes is a small order of percomorph fish in the clade Ovalentaria.

This order is recognized by the Catalog of Fishes (2025). It contains only two families:

• Mugilidae Jarocki, 1822 - mullets (57 species)
• Ambassidae Klunzinger, 1870 - Asiatic glassfishes (75 species)

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Agassiz's_glassfish_(Ambassis_agassizii)_group_Sydney_Zoo_aquarium_2023-03-08.jpg" caption="[[Agassiz's perchlet]] (''Pseudombassis agassizii'')"] ::

Until recently, this order was restricted to only the mullets, but phylogenetic studies support the Asiatic glassfishes (previously placed as incertae sedis within the Ovalentaria) being their closest relatives. The order is thought to be the sister group to the Blenniiformes. Other authors instead treat this order as a clade within an expanded Blenniiformes, and also find the Congrogadidae to be allied with the mullet-glassfish clade.

References

References

1. (2012-12-01). "The Evolution of Pharyngognathy: A Phylogenetic and Functional Appraisal of the Pharyngeal Jaw Key Innovation in Labroid Fishes and Beyond". Systematic Biology.
2. "Mugiliformes Günther 1880 - Plazi TreatmentBank".
3. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION".
4. "CAS - Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes - Genera/Species by Family/Subfamily".
5. (2016-03-01). "Multilocus resolution of Mugilidae phylogeny (Teleostei: Mugiliformes): Implications for the family's taxonomy". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
6. (2017-07-06). "Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes". BMC Evolutionary Biology.
7. (2024-04-18). "Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.

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