''Mulloidichthys'' is a
genus
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of
fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of ...
in the
family
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Mullidae
The goatfishes are perciform fish of the family Mullidae. The family is also sometimes referred to as the red mullets, which also refers more narrowly to the genus '' Mullus''.
The family name and the English common name mullet derived from La ...
native to coral and rocky
reef
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s of the
tropical
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the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...
Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.
Species
There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Mulloidichthys ayliffe''
Uiblein, 2011 (Indian mimic goatfish)
* ''
Mulloidichthys dentatus''
( T. N. Gill, 1862) (Mexican goatfish)
* ''
Mulloidichthys flavolineatus
The yellowstripe goatfish (''Mulloidichthys flavolineatus'') is a species of goatfish native to the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The fish is known as Weke 'a'a in Hawaiian.
Description
The species' color ranges from grey to white on i ...
''
( Lacépède, 1801)
** ''
M. f. flavicaudus''
Fernández-Silva & J. E. Randall, 2016 (Yellow-tail goatfish)
** ''
M. f. flavolineatus''
( Lacépède, 1801) (Yellow-stripe goatfish)
* ''
Mulloidichthys martinicus''
(G. Cuvier
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, 1829) (Yellow goatfish)
* ''
Mulloidichthys mimicus''
J. E. Randall & Guézé, 1980 (Mimic goatfish)
* ''
Mulloidichthys pfluegeri''
( Steindachner, 1900) (Orange goatfish)
* ''
Mulloidichthys vanicolensis''
(Valenciennes
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It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced a ...
, 1831) (Yellow-fin goatfish)
References
Mullidae
Perciformes genera
Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley
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