The spotted mullet/goatfish has an elongated body with a small protrusible mouth with conical teeth and two long barbels on their chin, giving them the look of a goat. The spotted goatfish can lead to ciguatera poisoning. It is a poisoning caused by eating otherwise edible tropical, subtropical, and reef fish, in whose flesh a toxic substance accumulates produced by dinoflagellates. The symptoms of this poisoning develop in three to six hours or in some rare cases even after 30 hours of eating the contaminated fish, including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and stomach pain. Each year up to 50,000 cases of ciguatera poisoning are reported and affect every 3 out of 100 people.