Definition of Mullus surmuletus

1. Noun. Brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels.

Exact synonyms: Goatfish, Red Mullet, Surmullet
Generic synonyms: Mullet
Group relationships: Genus Mullus, Mullus
Specialized synonyms: Mullus Auratus, Red Goatfish, Mulloidichthys Martinicus, Yellow Goatfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mullus Surmuletus

Muller's fixative
Muller's law
Muller's manoeuvre
Muller's muscle
Muller's radial cells
Muller's sign
Muller's trigone
Mullidae
Mulloidichthys
Mulloidichthys martinicus
Mullus
Mullus auratus
Mullus surmuletus (current term)
Multan
MultiMediaCard
MultiMediaCards
Multi Input Gateway
Multi Input Gateways
Multicultural London English
Multikulti
Multilith
Multimedia Card
Multimedia Cards
Multitronic
Mulwi
Mum

Literary usage of Mullus surmuletus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of the Marine and Fresh Water Fishes of the British Islands by William Saville Kent (1883)
"RED MULLET (Mullus surmuletus). pastimes of the barbaric Romans to hold banquets for the express purpose of watching the changing colours of the Red Mullet ..."

2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Mullus surmuletus is a second European species, scarcely different from Mullus barbatus. Equally excellent as food and larger in size are two Polynesian ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... Mullus surmuletus.' As to the former, he avers (p. 271) that 'red mullet have appeared, within the last few years, in the neighborhood of Boston, ..."

4. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1855)
"... (Mullus surmuletus). These are the whole of the fish reckoned of the first quality; and the tables at Nice exhibited very few of them. ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1841)
"... of these, Mullus surmuletus is given on the authority of Dr. Patrick Browne's Catalogue, published in 1774. ..."

6. Handbook of the Marine and Fresh Water Fishes of the British Islands by William Saville Kent (1883)
"RED MULLET (Mullus surmuletus). pastimes of the barbaric Romans to hold banquets for the express purpose of watching the changing colours of the Red Mullet ..."

7. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Mullus surmuletus is a second European species, scarcely different from Mullus barbatus. Equally excellent as food and larger in size are two Polynesian ..."

8. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... Mullus surmuletus.' As to the former, he avers (p. 271) that 'red mullet have appeared, within the last few years, in the neighborhood of Boston, ..."

9. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1855)
"... (Mullus surmuletus). These are the whole of the fish reckoned of the first quality; and the tables at Nice exhibited very few of them. ..."

10. Report of the Annual Meeting (1841)
"... of these, Mullus surmuletus is given on the authority of Dr. Patrick Browne's Catalogue, published in 1774. ..."

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