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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.
226 ft (69 m) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lake DeFuniak. Lake DeFuniak is an almost perfectly circular 40 acre [ 2] lake in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, United States, at the center of the DeFuniak Springs Historic District . Lake DeFuniak is one of the two almost perfectly round circular spring-fed lakes in the world, the other being ...
They shared a photo of the fish, whose spine looks to be bent in the middle. The FWC said the fish, which was measured at nearly 3 feet long and over 10 pounds, likely had a spinal injury at some ...
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 .
Cyprinodon Hamilton 1822 non Lacépède 1803. Oculeus Commerson ex Lacépède 1803. Tarpon Jordan & Evermann 1896. Tarpon are fish of the genus Megalops. They are the only members of the family Megalopidae. Of the two species, one ( M. atlanticus) is native to the Atlantic, and the other ( M. cyprinoides) to the Indo-Pacific Oceans.
One of the coolest, most prehistoric-looking fish lives in Florida’s offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It happens to be one of the best to eat but also one of the most elusive.
Labrax albidus DeKay, 1842. Labrax osculatii De Filippi, 1853. The white bass, silver bass, or sand bass ( Morone chrysops) is a freshwater fish of the temperate bass family Moronidae. commonly around 12-15 inches long. The species' main color is silver-white to pale green. Its back is dark, with white sides and belly, and with narrow dark ...