Species group · Bony fish
WAnimals has 2 species of mullet, in the family Mugilidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 79 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
It eats detritus, microalgae and bottom-living organisms; the young feed on zooplankton.
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It lives in warm and temperate coastal waters worldwide, often entering estuaries and rivers.
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A female can release as many as 2.6 million eggs in open water.
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It feeds by scraping mud and sediment with its very thick upper lip, taking in microscopic algae and detritus.
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It is catadromous: it lives in coastal and brackish waters and drops down to the sea to spawn.
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