Definition of Family Mullidae

1. Noun. Goatfishes or red mullets.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Mullidae

family Miridae
family Mniaceae
family Mobulidae
family Molidae
family Molossidae
family Momotidae
family Moniliaceae
family Monocanthidae
family Monodontidae
family Monotropaceae
family Moraceae
family Morchellaceae
family Motacillidae
family Mucoraceae
family Mugilidae
family Mullidae (current term)
family Muraenidae
family Muridae
family Musaceae
family Muscicapidae
family Muscidae
family Musophagidae
family Mustelidae
family Mutillidae
family Myacidae
family Mycetophylidae
family Mycobacteriaceae
family Mycoplasmataceae
family Myctophidae
family Myliobatidae

Literary usage of Family Mullidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life-histories of the British Marine Food-fishes by William Carmichael M'Intosh, Arthur Thomas Masterman (1897)
"... in front of the vent, and some chromatophores have appeared in the marginal fin dorsally and ventrally. The Red Mullet-Family. Mullidae. THE RED MULLET. ..."

2. British Museum Guides: Vertrbrates by British Museum (Natural History) (1906)
"The Red Mullets (family Mullidae) have affinities with the last family, the Sparidae, but can readily be distinguished by the pair of erectile barbels which ..."

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