Wild Wonders of Europe / Banfi / Striped red mullet (Mullus surmuletus) portrait, Larvotto Marine Reserve, Monaco, Mediterranean Sea, July 2009

Dimitris Poursanidis / Mediterranean rainbow wrasse (Coris julis) female and three striped red mullet or surmullet (Mullus surmuletus) swim above little neptune seagrass (Cymodocea nodosa), Agia Pelagia, Heraklion, Crete, G...

Dimitris Poursanidis / A school of striped red mullet or surmullet (Mullus surmuletus) swim over seagrass meadow, Agia Pelagia, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Pascal Kobeh / Striped / Red mullet (Mullus surmuletus) looking for food with its chin barbels out, Canary Islands

Pascal Kobeh / Red stripped mullet (Mullus surmuletus) foraging, Azores, Atlantic ocean.

Pascal Kobeh / Striped / Red mullet (Mullus surmuletus) looking for food with a chin barbel out, Gozo Island, Malta. Mediterranean Sea.

Sue Daly / Red mullet (Mullus surmuletus) using its feelers to detect food, filmed at night, Sark, British Channel Islands, UK, October.

Sue Daly / Close-up of a Red mullet (Mullus surmuletus) using its feelers to detect food, filmed at night, Sark, British Channel Islands, UK, October.

Sue Daly / Red mullet (Mullus surmuletus) using its feelers to detect food, filmed at night, Sark, British Channel Islands, UK, October.

Sue Daly / Red Mullet (Mullus surmuletus). Maseline Harbour, Sark, British Channel Islands, September.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Red mullet (Mullus surmuletus). Pencil and watercolor painting.

Sue Daly / Red mullet (Mullus surmuletus) Channel Islands, UK October

Wild Wonders of Europe / Pitkin / Striped red mullet (Mullus surmuletus) probing for food with its barbels, at night, Elephant Bay, Lavezzi Islands, Corsica, France, September 2008

Jose B. Ruiz / Red Mullet {Mullus surmuletus} lying on sea-floor, Mediterranean.

Jose B. Ruiz / Red mullet {Mullus surmuletus} feeding on rock, Mediterranean.

Jose B. Ruiz / Red mullet {Mullus surmuletus} Mediterranean

Jose B. Ruiz / Red mullet searches for prey buried in sand {Mullus surmuletus} Mediterranean

Jose B. Ruiz / Red mullet searches for prey buried in sand {Mullus surmuletus} Mediterranean

Jose B. Ruiz / Red mullet searches for prey buried in sand {Mullus surmuletus} Mediterranean

Jose B. Ruiz / Red mullet searches in sand for prey {Mullus surmuletus} and attracts a Two banded bream {Diplodus vulgaris} looking for food. Mediterranean

Jose B. Ruiz / Red mullet searches in sand for prey {Mullus surmuletus} Mediterranean

Angelo Giampiccolo / A school of Red mullets (Mullus surmuletus) swims in the wreck of the SS Thistlegorm.