The goatfishes are fish of the family Mullidae, the only family in the order Mulliformes.[2] The family is also sometimes referred to as the red mullets, which also refers more narrowly to the genus Mullus.[3]
The family name and the English common name mullet derived from Latin mullus, the red mullet; other than the red mullet and the striped red mullet or surmullet, the English word "mullet" generally refers to a different family of fish, the Mugilidae or gray mullets.[3]
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^"Mulliformes". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
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Pseudupeneus maculatus, the spotted goatfish, is a species from the family Mullidae. The species was originally described by Marcus Elieser Bloch in 1793...
is a subtropical marine genus of perciform fish of the family Mullidae (goatfish) and includes the red mullets, occurring mainly in the southwest Atlantic...
family Mullidae, the goatfishes. It is known commonly as the finstripe goatfish. It is a marine fish native to the Indo-Pacific region. This species reaches...
The striped red mullet or surmullet (Mullus surmuletus) is a species of goatfish found in the Mediterranean Sea, eastern North Atlantic Ocean, and the Black...
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mainly small fish (such as flying fish, mullet, halfbeaks, anchovies, goatfish, crowned squirrelfish and Indian mackerel ), squid (including the family...
non-indigenous species into the Mediterranean. For example, the goldband goatfish (Upeneus moluccensis) has replaced the red mullet (Mullus barbatus); since...
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