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title: "Yelloweye Mullet"
description: "Aldrichetta forsteri — Fische. Yellow-eye mullet (Aldrichetta forsteri), are small, near-shore fish found in temperate waters of southern Australia from just north of Sydney, New South Wales to Shark Bay in Western Australia, around Tasmania, and New Zealand."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/yelloweye-mullet
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Yelloweye Mullet

> Aldrichetta forsteri — Fische. Yellow-eye mullet (Aldrichetta forsteri), are small, near-shore fish found in temperate waters of southern Australia from just north of Sydney, New South Wales to Shark Bay in Western Australia, around Tasmania, and New Zealand.

- Scientific name: *Aldrichetta forsteri*
- Category: `fish` (Fische)
- Habitats: `sea` (Meer & Küste)
- iNaturalist observations: 1333
- Wikidata: [Q2555766](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2555766)
- iNaturalist taxon: [322001](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/322001)

## Names

- en: Yelloweye Mullet
- es: Mújol de Foster
- pl: Aldrycheta

## Countries with the most observations

AU (561), NZ (497)

## Summary

Yellow-eye mullet (Aldrichetta forsteri), are small, near-shore fish found in temperate waters of southern Australia from just north of Sydney, New South Wales to Shark Bay in Western Australia, around Tasmania, and New Zealand. Others names are Coorong mullet (after the Coorong area of South Australia), conmuri, estuary mullet, Forster's mullet, freshwater mullet, pilch, pilchard, Victor Harbor mullet, yelloweye and yellow-eyed mullet.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-eye_mullet

## Photo

![Yelloweye Mullet](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yelloweye-mullet/medium.jpg)

Photo: Sunita Singh · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/113247508

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yelloweye-mullet?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).