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

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)

MatBio: FISHES - Matanzas Biodiversity

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