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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 ↓

Hickory Shad 1
Alosa mediocris
Atlantic Menhaden 2
Brevoortia tyrannus
American Gizzard Shad 3
Dorosoma cepedianum
Threadfin Shad 4
Dorosoma petenense
Scaled Sardine 5
Harengula jaguana
Atlantic Thread Herring 6
Opisthonema oglinum
Striped Anchovy 7
Anchoa hepsetus
Bay Anchovy 8
Anchoa mitchilli

Edited by matbio, Jose Nunez, and Emily Rose Sharkey

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  • 1. Ellen Edmonson and Hugh Chrisp, no known copyright restrictions (public domain)
  • 2. (c) Brian Gratwicke, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 3. (c) Jacob Stagg, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Jacob Stagg
  • 4. (c) FAO, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 5. NOAA Photo Library, no known copyright restrictions (public domain)
  • 6. SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC, no known copyright restrictions (public domain)
  • 7. (c) Baldwin, Carole C., some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 8. (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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