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Striped red mullet

{{Short description|Species of ray-finned fish}}

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| image = Mullus surmuletus, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR imported from iNaturalist photo 277193780 (cropped).jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Carpenter, K.E. |author2=Smith-Vaniz, W.F. |author3=de Bruyne, G. |author4=de Morais, L. |date=2015 |title=Mullus surmuletus |volume=2015 |page=e.T198674A42691804 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T198674A42691804.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| taxon = Mullus surmuletus

| authority = Linnaeus, 1758

| synonyms = * Mullus barbatus surmuletus Linnaeus, 1758

}}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 Sea. They can be found in water as shallow as {{convert|5|m|ft}} or as deep as {{convert|409|m|ft}} depending upon the portion of their range that they are in. This species can reach a length of {{convert|40|cm|in}} SL though most are only around {{convert|25|cm|in}}. The greatest recorded weight for this species is {{convert|1|kg|lb}}. This is a commercially important species and is also sought after as a game fish.{{FishBase |genus= Mullus|species= surmuletus| month = December | year = 2013}}

Etymology

File:Salmonete de roca (Mullus surmuletus), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-23, DD 31 (cropped).jpg

Mullus barbatus and it are commonly called "red mullets" and often are not distinguished, though they can be told apart by the striped first dorsal fin of M. surmuletus.

Despite its English name, the striped red mullet, of the goatfish family Mullidae, is only very distantly related to the grey mullet and other species called "mullet", classified in their own separate order and family.{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=752 |publisher=Wiley |isbn= 978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ }}

{{Clear|left}}File:Ichthyologie; ou, Histoire naturelle des poissons (Plate 57) (6918344044).jpgFile:Salmonete de roca (Mullus surmuletus), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-21, DD 59.jpg

Gallery

File:Salmonete de roca (Mullus surmuletus) con un parásito (Anilocra physodes), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-31, DD 94.jpg|With Anilocra physodes parasite, Portugal

File:Mullus surmuletus, Vlachorema, Pelion imported from iNaturalist photo 80498399.jpg|Greece

File:Mullus surmuletus, Galway, Ireland imported from iNaturalist photo 111201316.jpg|Ireland

File:Mullus surmuletus, Province of Chieti, Italy imported from iNaturalist photo 230226306.jpg|Italy

File:Mullus surmuletus, Ensuès-la-Redonne, Frankreich imported from iNaturalist photo 23726990.jpg|France

File:Mullus surmuletus, Le Cap d'Agde, 34300, France imported from iNaturalist photo 300145896.jpg|France

File:Mullus surmuletus, Haute-Corse, Corse, FR imported from iNaturalist photo 4783077 (cropped).jpg|France

File:Mullus surmuletus, São Martinho, Funchal, Portugal imported from iNaturalist photo 260158533.jpg|Portugal

References

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  • Alan Davidson, Mediterranean Seafood, Penguin 1972, {{ISBN|0-14-046174-4}}

External links

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  • {{SealifePhotos|126986}}

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Category:Mullus

Category:Fish of the Mediterranean Sea

Category:Fish of the Black Sea

Category:Fish of Europe

Category:Marine fish of North Africa

Category:Fish described in 1758

Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus

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