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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 ↓

Banded Drum 1
Larimus fasciatus
Spotted Seatrout
Cynoscion nebulosus
Croaker 2
Cynoscion regalis
Black Drum 3
Pogonias cromis
Silver Perch 4
Bairdiella chrysoura
Spot Croaker 5
Leiostomus xanthurus
Southern Kingcroaker 6
Menticirrhus americanus
Gulf Kingfish 5
Menticirrhus littoralis
Northern Kingfish 7
Menticirrhus saxatilis
Atlantic Croaker 8
Micropogonias undulatus
Red Drum 9
Sciaenops ocellatus
America Stardrum 1
Stellifer lanceolatus

Edited by matbio, Jose Nunez, and Emily Rose Sharkey

Photo Credits

  • 1. (c) NOAANMFSMississippi Laboratory, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 2. (c) Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 3. (c) weberbirding, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 4. NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC., no known copyright restrictions (public domain)
  • 5. (c) NOAA Photo Library, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 6. (c) Robertson Ross, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 7. Wikimedia Commons, no known copyright restrictions (public domain)
  • 8. SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC., no known copyright restrictions (public domain)
  • 9. (c) FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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