| 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.
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