Argentine Goatfish

Body reddish dorsally, pinkish ventrally. Large blotch or band of jet black near tip of first dorsal fin. Three bands on second dorsal fin. Posterior median rays of caudal fin blackish, both lobes with indistinct bands. Pectoral and pelvic fins reddish. Anal fin rays pale pinkish, its membrane translucent, and its base milky white. Cheek and preopercular silvery white (Ref. 27363).

Dorsal spines (total): 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8; Analspines: 2; Analsoft rays: 6

Marketed fresh.

fisheries: minor commercial; price category: high; price reliability: reliable: based on ex-vessel price for this species

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.