Mullus

Red mullet ( Mullus surmuletus )

Mullus is one of six genera in the family of mullets. It comprises four types. Their habitat extends from the south-west over the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea.

Features

The muzzle is short and blunt, so that the head of all mullet species has the steepest profile in Mullus species. The upper jaw is toothless in adult animals, the vomer is widened to a furrowed in the middle plate and supporting blunt rounded teeth. You have no thorns along the operculum edge or stripes appear on the second back or the tail fin.

Nutrition

Mullus species hunt small prey, they dig up from sandy or muddy ground.

Species

  • Mullus arge tinae Hubbs & Marini, 1933.
  • Mullus auratus Jordan & Gilbert, 1882.
  • Red mullet ( Mullus barbatus) Linnaeus, 1758.
  • Red mullet ( Mullus surmuletus ) Linnaeus, 1758.

These species are in the English-speaking world known as mullets, they are not classified as impaired.

Acanthomorpha Syngnathiformes Genus Carl Linnaeus David Starr Jordan FishBase
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