Mullidae

Argentine goatfish

Mullus argentinae

Mullid Fish beneath the Atlantic Ocean

• Silver
• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• South America
• Fusiform
• Medium
• Tropical fish

Mullus argentinae, the Argentine goatfish, is a species of ray-finned fish, a goatfish from the family Mullidae which is native to the western South Atlantic Ocean from Brazil to northern Argentina. This species was formally described in 1933 by Carl Leavitt Hubbs and Tomás Leandro Marini with the type locality given as the port of Quequén in Argentina.