Dajaus monticola (Bancroft, 1834) is a animal in the Mugilidae family, order Mugiliformes, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Dajaus monticola (Bancroft, 1834)
Dajaus monticola, the mountain mullet, is the only species in genus Dajaus, a freshwater ray-finned fish found across the Americas.
Dajaus monticola, commonly known as the mountain mullet, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Mugilidae. This species is the only member of the monotypic genus Dajaus. It is distributed across North and South America, occurring from the U.S. states of North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas south to Colombia and Venezuela, and also found throughout the West Indies in the Antilles.
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