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The Scorpaenidae (also known as scorpionfish) are a family of mostly marine fish that includes many of the world's most venomous species. As their name suggests, scorpionfish have a type of "sting" in the form of sharp spines coated with venomous mucus. The family is a large one, with hundreds of members.
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 ...
Bermuda, Massachusetts, and northern Gulf of Mexico to southern Brazil Eastern Atlantic: Ascension and St. Helena Scorpaena porcus Linnaeus, 1758: black scorpionfish: British Isles to the Azores, and the Canary Islands, including Morocco, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea Scorpaena regina Wibowo, Johnson & Motomura, 2019: Eastern Queen ...
The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [3] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [4] 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 ...
Cynoscion arenarius is found in the western Atlantic Ocean where it occurs from Florida into the Gulf of Mexico as far south as the Bay of Campeche in Mexico and also Belize . [7] This is a demersal fish occurring in shallow coastal waters, including in the surf zone and in estuaries, [ 6 ] where there is a sandy substrate at depths down as far ...
The color of this species varies from brown to black with a light background, the areas before the caudal fin are abruptly paler. The head has dark spots, the ventral surface is orange / red. Its fins have dark bands and spots, with a light background, but most often with green spots. In the middle and near the end, the tail fin has dark bars.
The Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sciaenidae and is closely related to the black drum (Pogonias cromis), the silver perch (Bairdiella chrysoura), the spot croaker (Leiostomus xanthurus), the red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus), the spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus), and the weakfish (Cynoscion regalis).