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The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [3] [4] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [5] It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the ...
This category contains fish of the Gulf of Mexico in the Caribbean Sea of North America. Pages in category "Fish of the Gulf of Mexico" The following 76 pages are in this category, out of 76 total.
Gulf bareye tilefish: Caulolatilus intermedius: Gulf butterfish: Peprilus burti: Gulf chimaera: Hydrolagus alberti: Gulf Coast pygmy sunfish: Elassoma gilberti: Gulf flounder: Paralichthys albigutta: Gulf killifish: Fundulus grandis: Gulf kingfish Menticirrhus littoralis: Gulf menhaden: Brevoortia patronus: Gulf of Mexico fringed sole ...
The Gulf flounder is a flatfish that swims on its side. Their two eyes look upward when swimming. They have sharp teeth, two eyes on their left side, and a white side opposite. Paralichthys albigutta is widely distributed in the Gulf of Mexico and a portion of the western North Atlantic. Adults are found in a variety of habitats, but generally ...
The cobia (Rachycentron canadum) (/ ˈ k oʊ b i ə /, KOH-bee-ə) is a species of marine carangiform ray-finned fish, the only extant representative of the genus Rachycentron and the family Rachycentridae. Its other common names include black kingfish, black salmon, ling, lemonfish, crabeater, prodigal son, codfish, and black bonito.
The species is endemic to the western Atlantic Ocean. [3] [7] They are found off the coast of the southeastern United States as far north as Massachusetts, the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Caribbean. They are also found in Bermuda and the eastern coast of Brazil. The fish inhabits marine and brackish waters typically in subtropical climates.
The range of Gulf menhaden encompasses the entirety of the Gulf of Mexico nearshore waters, with the exception of the extreme eastern Yucatan and western Cuba. [2] Evidence from morphology [3] and DNA analyses [4] suggest that the Gulf menhaden is the Gulf of Mexico complement to the Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus).
The Gulf grouper is found over rocky reefs, kelp beds and sea mounts. The adults are normally found at depths between 5 and 30 metres (16 and 98 ft) but has been recorded as deep as 45 metres (148 ft) during the summer months, and even as deep as 100 metres (330 ft) on reefs.