MatBio Oyster Reef Biota

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 ↓

Planehead filefish ¹
Stephanolepis hispidus

Naked goby ²
Gobiosoma bosc

Pleated Sea Squirt ³
Styela plicata

Sea Grape Tunicate ⁴
Molgula manhattensis

Sheepshead ⁵
Archosargus probatocephalus

Feather Blenny ⁶
Hypsoblennius hentz

White Mullet ⁷
Mugil curema

Oyster Toadfish ⁸
Opsanus tau

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