red mullet

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


New South Wales, Upeneoidesvlamingii, Cuv. and Val., and Upeneus porosus,Cuv. and Val., family Mullidae. See Mullet.

1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'p. 38:

«The name of this family is a source of much confusion. It isderived from the Latin word mullus, which in the form of`Mullet' we apply to the well-known fishes of quite a differentfamily, the Mugilidae. Another fish to which the term`Red-Mullet' is applied is of the family Cottidae or Gurnards.»

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