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Flathead Grey Mullet

Mugil cephalus

Also known as: Black Mullet, Black True Mullet, Bright Mullet, Bully, Bully Mullet, Callifaver Mullet, Common Grey Mullet, Common Mullet, Flathead Mullet, Grey Mullet, Hardgut Mullet, Hardgut River Mullet, Longaram Mullet, Mangrove Mullet, Poddy, Poddy Mullet, River Mullet, Sand Mullet, Sea Mullet, Springer, Striped Grey Mullet, Striped Mullet, Yellow-tailed Mullet

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2024
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@greatwhite · Ningaloo Reef, Exmouth, WA, Australia · March 20141 / 10
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Overview

Found in schools, usually in very shallow waters but can be much deeper, over mud and sand bottoms of estuaries, lagoons, rivers and coastal reefs.

Mullets are inshore, schooling fish, sometimes entering freshwater areas. Found close to the surface or over the sand feeding.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Behaviour
schooling

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Circumtropical
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Found in schools, usually in very shallow waters but can be much deeper, over mud and sand bottoms of estuaries, lagoons, rivers and coastal reefs.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderMugiliformes
    5. familyMugilidae
    6. genusMugil
    7. speciesMugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758

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