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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Mugil cephalus

Striped mullet

WoRMS 126983ITIS 170335GBIF 8189568key worms:126983
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2026-08-05: itis_id 170335 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · John Hlavin · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Mugil cephalus
Striped mullet1 m
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Mugil cephalus photographed on Minorca (Spain) sea.
Photo · Roberto Pillon · CC BY 3.0 · commons

The striped mullet is an important food fish species in the mullet family Mugilidae. It is found in coastal temperate, tropical and subtropical waters worldwide.W CalCOFI holds 30 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2014, as larva.R

30
observations
30
records
30
sampling events
1960–2014
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 30 obs · 30 events · 1960–2014 · larva
    name used: Mugil cephalus Striped mullet · code 629

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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:126983%22