Animalia > Chordata > Mugiliformes > Mugilidae > Chelon > Chelon saliens

Chelon saliens (Small mullet; Sharpnose mullet; Leaping mullet; Leaping grey mullet; Leaping gray mullet)

Synonyms: Liza saliens; Liza saliens furcata; Mugil saliens (homotypic); Mugil verselata (heterotypic); Protomugil saliens
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Wikipedia Abstract

The leaping mullet (Chelon saliens) is a species of fish in the Mugilidae family. It is found in coastal waters and estuaries in the northeast Atlantic, ranging from Morocco to France, and including the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
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Infraspecies

Liza saliens f. saliens

Attributes

Diet [1]  Omnivore

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
DOÑANA 281453 Spain  
Khazar Zapovednik State Nature Reserve Ia 658105 Turkmenistan  
Mandra - Poda 15162 Bulgaria  

Prey / Diet

Predators

Torpedo marmorata (Common crampfish)[3]

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Grenouillet, G. & Schmidt-Kloiber., A.; 2006; Fish Indicator Database. Euro-limpacs project, Workpackage 7 - Indicators of ecosystem health, Task 4, www.freshwaterecology.info, version 5.0 (accessed on July 3, 2012).
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3DIET OF THE MARBLED ELECTRIC RAY TORPEDO MARMORATA (CHONDRICHTHYES: TORPEDINIDAE) OFF THE LANGUEDOCIAN COAST (SOUTHERN FRANCE, NORTHERN MEDITERRANEAN, Christian CAPAPÉ, Séverine CROUZET, Céline CLÉMENT, Yvan VERGNE & Olivier GUÉLORGET, ANNALES Ser. hist. nat. Vol. 17 No. 1 2001 p. 17-22
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0