Mullet (fish)

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Mullet (fish)

There are other meanings of the word mullet
Mullet

Mullet may refer to:...
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There are other fishes called 'mullets', notably the red mullet

Red mullet

The mullets or grey mullets are a family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
(Mugilidae) of ray-finned fish found worldwide in coastal temperate and tropical waters, and in some species in fresh water also. Mullets have served as an important source of food in Mediterranean Europe since Roman

Roman Empire

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There are other meanings of the word mullet
Mullet

Mullet may refer to:...
.

There are other fishes called 'mullets', notably the red mullet

Red mullet

The mullets or grey mullets are a family

Family (biology)

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
times. The family includes about 80 species in 17 genera.

Mailmen are distinguished by the presence of two separate dorsal fin

Dorsal fin

A wikt:dorsal fin is a fin located on the backs of some fish, whales, dolphins, and porpoises, as well as the ichthyosaurs. Its main purpose is to stabilize the animal against rolling and assist in sudden turns....
s, small triangular mouths, and the absence of a lateral line

Lateral line

In aquatic organisms , the lateral line is a sense organ used to detect movement and vibration in the surrounding water. Lateral lines are usually visible as faint lines running lengthwise down each side, from the vicinity of the Operculum s to the base of the tail....
organ. They feed on detritus

Detritus

Detritus is a biological term used to describe dead or waste organic material.Detritus may also refer to:* Detritus , a geological term used to describe the particles of rock produced by weathering...
, and most species have unusually muscular stomachs and a complex pharynx

Pharynx

FunctionsThe pharynx is part of the digestive system and respiratory system of many organisms.Because both food and Earth's atmosphere pass through the pharynx, a flap of connective tissue called the epiglottis closes over the trachea when food is swallowed to prevent choking or Pulmonary aspiration....
to help in digestion.

Classification and naming

Taxonomically, the family is usually treated as the sole member of the order Mugiliformes, but as Nelson says, "there has been much disagreement concerning the relationships" of this family. The presence of fin spines clearly indicates membership in the superorder Acanthopterygii, and in the 1960s they were classed as primitive perciforms, while others have grouped them in Atheriniformes

Atheriniformes

Atheriniformes, also known as the silversides, is an order of ray-finned fish that includes the Atherinidae and several less-familiar families, including the unusual Phallostethidae....
. FishBase

FishBase

FishBase is a comprehensive database of information about fish. , it included descriptions of over 30,000 species, over 260,000 common names in hundreds of languages, over 46,000 pictures, and references to more than 42,000 works in the scientific literature....
follows Gosline in placing the family in the Perciformes.

In North America, "mullet" by itself usually refers to Mugilidae. In Europe, the word "mullet" is usually qualified, the "grey mullets" being Mugilidae and the "red mullets" or "surmullets" being Mullidae, notably members of the genus Mullus, the red mullet

Red mullet

The red mullets or surmullets are two species of Mullidae, Mullus barbatus and Mullus surmuletus, found in the Mediterranean Sea, east North Atlantic Ocean, and the Black Sea....
s. Outside Europe, the Mullidae are often called "goatfish". Fish with common names including the word "mullet" may be a member of one family or the other, or even unrelated such as the freshwater white sucker

White sucker

The white sucker, Catostomus commersonii, is a bottom-feeding freshwater fish inhabiting North America from Labrador in the north to Georgia and New Mexico in the south....
(Catostomus commersonii).