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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Mullidae

Goatfishes

WoRMS 125547ITIS 169406GBIF 4287key worms:125547
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2026-08-05: itis_id 169406 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Emilie Boulanger · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Mullus surmuletus

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 Mullidae
Photo · Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The goatfishes, or mullets, are ray-finned fish of the family Mullidae, the only family in the suborder Mulloidei of the order Syngnathiformes. The family is also sometimes referred to as the red mullets, which also refers more narrowly to the genus Mullus.W CalCOFI holds 33 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2009, as larva.R

33
observations
33
records
33
sampling events
1951–2009
years
1
datasets
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 33 obs · 33 events · 1951–2009 · larva
    name used: Mullidae Goatfishes · code 460

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:125547%22