Thick-Lipped Grey Mullet

Chelon Labrosus (Risso)

Appears in

Mediterranean Seafood

By Alan Davidson

Published 1981

About

Family Mugilidae

REMARKS Maximum length 60 cm. To be recognized by the thick lips and by having a rounder body than the preceding species. (The Turkish name means round-head mullet.)

The Venetians exercise a remarkable degree of discrimination in naming the grey mullets. Thus they apply the name cefalo bosega, or simply bosega, to thick-lipped grey mullet in their third year. The names boseghetta and boseghin are used for specimens in the second and first year respectively.

Part of

Grey Mullets