Common name: Red Mullet.
Scientific name: Mullus surmuletus Linnaeus, 1758
Family: Mullidae
Distribution and Habitat: It lives in rubble or sandy bottoms, up to 100 m depth.
Description: Moderatly compressed body, large head with big eyes and small mouth with a pair of wattles in the lower mandible. The colouration is brownish red, with vertical stripes, 3 of which are darker in the back, and several brown spots in the ventral region when observed at night. During the day, it presents 3 longitudinal orange yellow stripes, and no longer the vertical ones. The membrane of the first dorsal fin has 2 black wide stripes. The maximum length of this species is 40 cm, but generally it measures between 20 to 25 cm.
Conservation statute and Threats: Not evaluated.
Observations: Caught with fish pots and nets.