A mullet is a small sea fish that people cook and eat. Mullet is this fish eaten as food. Any of fewer than 100 species (family Mugilidae) of abundant, commercially valuable schooling fishes found in brackish or fresh waters throughout tropical and temperate regions. Mullets frequent shallow, inshore areas, searching the sand or mud for microscopic plants and small animals. They are silvery and 1-3 ft (30-90 cm) long, with large scales, a short snout, a cigar-shaped body, a forked tail, and two distinct dorsal fins, the first containing four stiff spines. The common, or striped, mullet (Mugil cephalus), cultivated in some areas, is a well-known species found worldwide
bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet
(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) The flathead mullet, Mugil cephalus, is a mullet of the genus Mugil, found in coastal tropical and subtropical waters worldwide. Its length is typically 12 to 30 inches (30 to 75 centimeters). This species occurs worldwide, attested to by other common names for this fish