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Thinlip Grey Mullet

Chelon ramada

Also known as: Grey Mullet, Thin-lipped Grey Mullet, Thinlip Mullet

NTNear ThreatenedIUCN Red List, 2024
Adult
@walvansjoerd · Praia do Garajau, madeira, Portugal · June 20191 / 1
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Overview

Found in schools, often in polluted waters close to shore, also entering lagoons and rivers.
Juveniles feed on zooplankton.

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

Behaviour
schooling

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, Black Sea
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Found in schools, often in polluted waters close to shore, also entering lagoons and rivers.

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Adult photos 1

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderMugiliformes
    5. familyMugilidae
    6. genusChelon
    7. speciesChelon ramada (Risso, 1827)

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    More in the family

    Mullets (Mugilidae)