Yellow-eye mullet
| Yellow-eye mullet | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Mugiliformes |
| Family: | Mugilidae |
| Genus: | Aldrichetta Whitley, 1945 |
| Species: | A. forsteri
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| Binomial name | |
| Aldrichetta forsteri (Valenciennes, 1836)
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| Synonyms | |
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Aldrichetta forsteri nonpilcharda Whitley, 1951 | |
Yellow-eye mullet (Aldrichetta forsteri), are small, near-shore fish found in temperate waters of southern Australia from just north of Sydney, New South Wales to Shark Bay in Western Australia, around Tasmania, and New Zealand. Others names are Coorong mullet (after the Coorong area of South Australia), conmuri, estuary mullet, Forster's mullet, freshwater mullet, pilch, pilchard, Victor Harbor mullet, yelloweye and yellow-eyed mullet.