any of the marine percoid fishes constituting the family Mullidae, esp Mullus surmuletus, a food fish of European waters. They have a pair of long barbels beneath the chin and a reddish coloration
US name: goatfish
red mullet in American English
noun
a goatfish or surmullet
Word origin
[1755–65]This word is first recorded in the period 1755–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: avalanche, buckeye, caucus, lame duck, mitt
However, no impact of river runoff on lipid reserves of red mullet was observed.
Josep Lloret, Montserrat Demestre, Josep Sánchez-Pardo 2007, 'Lipid reserves of red mullet (Mullus barbatus) during pre-spawning in the northwesternMediterranean', Scientia Marinahttp://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/6. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Potential effects of these changes on ecological functioning and the impact on red mullet population are discussed.
Alba Muntadas, Montserrat Demestre, Silvia de Juan, Chris L.J. Frid 2014, 'Trawling disturbance on benthic ecosystems and consequences on commercial species:a northwestern Mediterranean case study', Scientia Marinahttp://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/1511. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)