Description: color olive
green with blue tints on back, shading to silvery sides, white below; anal
and pelvic fins yellowish; dark blotch at base of pectoral fin; inverted
V-shaped mouth; insertion of second dorsal over that of anal fin.
Similar Fish: striped
mullet, M. cephalus; white mullet, M. curema.
Where found: INSHORE,
occuring along beaches in the fall.
Size: small mullet, less
than 1 pound.
*Florida Record: n/a
Remarks: spawns in
NEARSHORE or possibly INSHORE waters during spring and summer; juveniles
occur INSHORE; feeds on algae, small crustaceans and detritus.
* The Florida records
quoted are from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's
printed publication, Fishing
Lines and are not necessarily the most current ones. The records are
provided as only as a benchmark.
