| Remarks |
Inhabits coral reefs (Ref. 58534). Occur in shallow coastal waters and from brackish to freshwater regions of rivers (Refs. 41299, 9773). Juveniles and/or adults are found in mangrove creeks, inlets and intertidal mud flats (Refs. 121464, 9773). Form schools (Ref. 40448); in larger aggregations during spawning, which takes place at sea (Ref. 3468). Feed on small algae, diatoms, forams, benthic polychaetes, crustaceans, mollusks, organic matter and detritus (Also Ref. 9773); fry feed on copepods and floating algae (Ref. 40448). Changes in the feeding habits from planktonic organisms and migratory zooplankton to meiobenthos which takes place between 0.1 and 0.2 cm length, and a switch from meiobenthos to microbenthos between 0.15 and 0.25 cm length (Ref. 56101). Gill-raker filaments were found in the stomach captured using gill net. Mullets struggle to be free of the constricting meshes, food is often regurgitated at an early stage, gasping of oxygen would then easily cause gill-rakers, broken loose in the struggle, to be swalowed (Ref. 74739). |
