Thinlip mullet
Thin-lipped gray mullet ( Liza ramada )
The thin-lipped gray mullet ( Liza ramada ) is a kind of mullet, which, the North Sea and the Mediterranean and the Black Sea to be found in the Northeast Atlantic.
Features
The thin-lipped mullet has a characteristic of the mullets elongated, spindle-shaped body and reaches a body length of an average of 40 and a maximum of 70 centimeters with a maximum weight of 2.9 kg. The upper side flattened head has a terminal mouth. In contrast to Thicklip mullet she does not have enlarged upper lip and no papillae. The back is gray-blue, the edges are colored silver gray and have several fine dark longitudinal lines.
Mullets have two dorsal fins, the first has 4 hard fin rays and the second a hard and 7-8 soft, the anal fin 3 hard and soft fin rays 9. The pelvic fins are breast constantly.
Dissemination
The thin-lipped mullet is in the northeastern Atlantic from Norway, the northern and the western Baltic Sea found to West Africa in the area of Senegal and the Cape Verde and Canary Islands. She also lives in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
Way of life
Mullets live as pronounced shoaling fish in coastal areas, where they occasionally penetrate into lagoons and estuaries. They are mainly there to be found in the summer in the field of surface and graze close to the ground nursery algae and invertebrates from. In the winter they retreat into northern areas into deeper layers back and make the food intake a large extent.
The spawning season falls in the Mediterranean in the October to December and in more northern areas in the March to April. The eggs are released into the open water and float on the basis of the stored oil droplets in the surface water. The age of this type can be up to 9 years old.
Relevance to humans
Mullets are popular food fish that are caught in the open sea and kept in aquaculture.