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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 Florida gar ( Lepisosteus platyrhincus) is a species of gar found in the US from the Savannah River and Ochlockonee River watersheds of Georgia and throughout peninsular Florida. Florida gar can reach a length over 3 ft (91 cm). The young feed on zooplankton and insect larvae, as well as small fish. Adults mainly eat fish, shrimp, and crayfish.
Lake Okeechobee (US: / oʊ k i ˈ tʃ oʊ b i / oh-kee-CHOH-bee) [1] is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. [2] It is the eighth-largest natural freshwater lake among the 50 states of the United States and the second-largest natural freshwater lake contained entirely within the contiguous 48 states, after Lake Michigan.
The Mayan cichlid inhabits freshwater marshes, mangrove swamps, lakes, rivers, rocky shorelines, lagoons, estuaries, and coastal islands. Adults prefer coastal lagoons and rivers and may survive in marine conditions. [4] It can be found in oxygen-rich areas near submerged vegetation and over muddy substrates.
Florida bass. Distribution map of the Florida bass. Yellow represents native and purple represents where it has been introduced. The Florida bass ( Micropterus salmoides) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a black bass belonging to the sunfish family Centrarchidae of order Perciformes. It is found in the southeastern United States.
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 ...
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 .
Acharnes Holmberg, 1891[ 2] Peacock bass or Brazilian tucunaré are large freshwater cichlids of the genus Cichla. [ 3][ 4] These are diurnal predatory fishes native to the Amazon and Orinoco basins, as well as rivers of the Guianas, in tropical South America. [ 2] They are sometimes referred to in English by their Brazilian name tucunaré or ...