| Goatfish | |
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| Yellowfin goatfish | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Syngnathiformes |
| Suborder: | Mulloidei |
| Family: | Mullidae Rafinesque, 1815[1] |
| Genera | |
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The goatfishes are fish of the family Mullidae, the only family in the order Mulliformes.[2] The family is also sometimes referred to as the red mullets, which also refers more narrowly to the genus Mullus.[3]
The family name and the English common name mullet derived from Latin mullus, the red mullet; other than the red mullet and the striped red mullet or surmullet, the English word "mullet" generally refers to a different family of fish, the Mugilidae or gray mullets.[3]
- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- ^ "Mulliformes". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
- ^ a b Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. 'mullet'