Mullet
Mugil cephalus
Kosher
Has fins and scales
Fins
Yes
Scales
Yes
Description
The striped mullet is an important food fish species in the mullet family Mugilidae. It is found in coastal temperate, tropical and subtropical waters worldwide.
Mullet shows up fried, smoked, baked, or canned, and it's especially popular fried along the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast. The roe is the real prize, salted, dried, and pressed into cured products such as bottarga, karasumi, and avgotaraho.
The flathead grey mullet lives in coastal temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide. It moves freely between fresh, brackish, and marine water at 0 to 120 m, turning up in estuaries and the lower reaches of rivers as well as along open coasts.
Also known as
- Striped Mullet
- Gray Mullet
- Black Mullet
- Flathead Mullet
- Bully Mullet
- Sea Mullet
- Common Mullet
Kosher Mullet in foreign languages
| Scientific | Mugil cephalus |
| Hebrew | קיפון בורי |
| Arabic | بوري الرأس المفلطح |
| Spanish | Albur |
| French | Cabot |
| Italian | muggine |
| German | Großkopfmeeräsche |
| Greek | Κέφαλος |
| Russian | Лобан |
| Turkish | Kefal |
| Chinese | 鯔 |
| Japanese | ボラ |
| Korean | 숭어 |
| Bengali | চ্যাপ্টামাথা খরোল |
| Vietnamese | Cá đối đầu dẹt |
| Thai | ปลากระบอกเทา |
| Indonesian | belanak abu-abu |
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Warnings & Kosher Issues
- Flathead grey mullet has fins and scales, so it is kosher.