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This article lists wide variety or diversity of fish in the rivers, lakes, and oceans of the state of Florida in the United States. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Also known as the pennant-fish and threadfin trevally. [ 4] Largest exclusively freshwater fish found in North America, measuring 8 to 10 feet.
The northern mockingbird is the state bird of Florida. This list of birds of Florida includes species documented in the U.S. state of Florida and accepted by the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee (FOSRC). As of November 2022, there were 539 species included in the official list. [ 1] Of them, 168 species and eight identifiable ...
Procambarus alleni. The Everglades crayfish[ 2] ( Procambarus alleni ), sometimes called the Florida crayfish, the blue crayfish, the electric blue crayfish, or the sapphire crayfish, is a species of freshwater crayfish endemic to Florida in the United States. Its natural range is the area east of St. Johns River and all of Florida from Levy ...
Cantherhines macrocerus. ( Hollard, 1853) Cantherhines macrocerus, commonly known as the whitespotted filefish, American whitespotted filefish, or whitespotted limefish, is a marine fish found along the coast of Florida extending southward into the Caribbean. This species is distinct and separate from Cantherhines dumerilii, the similarly named ...
The Atlantic goliath grouper or itajara ( Epinephelus itajara ), also known as the jewfish, [ 3][ 4] is a saltwater fish of the grouper family and one of the largest species of bony fish. The species can be found in the West Atlantic ranging from northeastern Florida, south throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, and along South ...
This April 5, 2012 file photo, shows U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists Adam Kaeser, left, and Frank Parauka weighing a Gulf sturgeon on the Blackwater River near Milton as part of a study ...
A recent study changed the way Florida's most popular freshwater game fish was classified. It also found the species in N.C. 'New' fish species in Florida, North Carolina.
Sciaenops ocellatus. ( Linnaeus, 1766) The red drum ( Sciaenops ocellatus ), also known as redfish, channel bass, puppy drum, spottail bass, or simply red, is a game fish found in the Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts to Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to northern Mexico. [ 2] It is the only species in the genus Sciaenops .