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MatBio: FISHES - Matanzas Biodiversity

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

Crevalle Jack 1
Caranx hippos
Horse-eye Jack 2
Caranx latus
Bigeye Scad 3
Selar crumenophthalmus
Hump-backed Butterfish 4
Selene setapinnis
Lookdown 5
Selene vomer
Florida Pompano 6
Trachinotus carolinus
Permit 2
Trachinotus falcatus
Greater Amberjack 7
Seriola dumerili
Jack 8
Oligoplites saurus
Atlantic Bumper 9
Chloroscombrus chrysurus
Rough Scad 10
Trachurus lathami
Great Barracuda 11
Sphyraena barracuda
Guachanche Barracuda 12
Sphyraena guachancho
Live Sharksucker 13
Echeneis naucrates
Mahi-Mahi 14
Coryphaena hippurus
Common Snook 15
Centropomus undecimalis
Cobia 16
Rachycentron canadum
Spotted Whiff 9
Citharichthys macrops
Bay Whiff 17
Citharichthys spilopterus
Gulf Flounder 18
Paralichthys albigutta
Summer Flounder 19
Paralichthys dentatus
Southern Flounder
Paralichthys lethostigma
Broad Flounder 9
Paralichthys squamilentus
Ocellated Flounder 20
Ancylopsetta ommata
Fringed Flounder 17
Etropus crossotus
Hogchoker 21
Trinectes maculatus
Sole 22
Achirus lineatus
Blackcheek Tonguefish
Symphurus plagiusa

Edited by matbio, Jose Nunez, and Emily Rose Sharkey

Photo Credits

  • 1. (c) David Snyder, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 2. (c) Flickr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 3. (c) FishWise Professional, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 4. NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, no known copyright restrictions (public domain)
  • 5. (c) Milla-Maria Salo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
  • 6. (c) StingrayPhil, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 7. (c) John Turnbull, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 8. (c) eustatic, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 9. SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC, no known copyright restrictions (public domain)
  • 10. (c) NOAANMFSMississippi Laboratory, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 11. (c) John E. Randall, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 12. (c) NOAA Photo Library, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 13. (c) BERNARD, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 14. (c) Manoel Lemos, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
  • 15. (c) Matthew Hoelscher, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
  • 16. (c) WorldFish Center - FishBase, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 17. (c) FAO, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 18. (c) Raredon, Sandra J., some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 19. (c) Michael McDonough, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
  • 20. (c) Brandi Noble, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 21. (c) Clinton & Charles Robertson, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 22. (c) Erling Holm, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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