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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. Lives in fresh water and estuaries, migrating to spawn in the ...
Synonyms [2] Scarus viridis Bonnaterre, 1788. The stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae, inhabiting coral reefs in Florida, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Bermuda and as far south as Brazil. [3] It mainly feeds on algae by scraping and excavating it with its teeth.
The bluestriped grunt is found in shallow water, at depths between 1 and 40 m (3 ft 3 in and 131 ft 3 in). [1] It is common in mangroves, reefs, and beds of sea grass. The adults aggregate in small schools over coral and rocky beds, especially in the vicinity of drop-offs. The juveniles are very common among beds of turtle grass (Thalassia ...
The smalltooth sawfish is the only sawfish found in U.S. waters and was added to the endangered species list in 2003 after it nearly vanished in the 1950s, wiped out by catch netting and loss of ...
Scientists are baffled as to why the rare and endangered sawfish have been spotted in Florida waters spinning around, and 28 have been found dead. These Florida fish are spinning, acting ...
The Florida Reef (also known as the Great Florida Reef, Florida reefs, Florida Reef Tract and Florida Keys Reef Tract) is the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States. [1] It lies a few miles seaward of the Florida Keys, is about 4 miles (6 to 7 km) wide and extends along the 20-metre (66 ft) depth contour 270 km (146 nmi ...
As the number of dead endangered smalltooth sawfish found in the Florida Keys since the end of January creeps up on 40, biologists made progress last week in their struggle to solve the mystery ...
The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost part of the continental United States. They begin at the southeastern coast of the Florida peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Miami and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the ...