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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Mugilidae

Mullets

WoRMS 125546ITIS 170333GBIF 8473key worms:125546
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2026-08-05: itis_id 170333 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Denis Lafage · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Chelon ramada

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Mugilidae
Photo · Roberto Pillon · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The mullets or grey mullets are a family (Mugilidae) of ray-finned fish found worldwide in coastal temperate and tropical waters, and some species in fresh water. Mullets have served as an important source of food in Mediterranean Europe since Roman times.W CalCOFI holds 184 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2014, as larva, across 4 taxa under it.R

184
observations
184
records
5
sampling events
1951–2014
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 5 obs · 5 events · 1967–2006 · larva
    name used: Mugilidae Mullets · code 480

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125546%22