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Definition of Family Mullidae
1. Noun. Goatfishes or red mullets.
Exact synonyms: Mullidae
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Order Perciformes, Order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi
Member holonyms: Mullet, Genus Mullus, Mullus, Genus Mulloidichthys, Mulloidichthys
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Order Perciformes, Order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi
Member holonyms: Mullet, Genus Mullus, Mullus, Genus Mulloidichthys, Mulloidichthys
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Mullidae
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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