List of fishes of Florida
This article lists fish in the lakes and oceans of the state of Florida, United States.
Common name | Scientific name | Image | Native | Non- native |
Fresh water |
Salt water |
Notes | |
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African pompano | Alectis ciliaris | Also known as the pennant-fish and threadfin trevally.[1] | ||||||
Alligator gar | Atractosteus spatula | Largest exclusively freshwater fish found in North America, measuring 8 to 10 feet. | ||||||
American Eel | Anguilla rostrata | Lives in fresh water and estuaries and only leaves these habitats to enter the Atlantic ocean to start its spawning migration to the Sargasso Sea. | ||||||
Atlantic angel shark | Squatina dumeril | Common name refers to its habit of snapping vigorously at fishery workers when caught. Even out of the water it is capable of lunging upwards to bite. | ||||||
Atlantic bonito | Atlantic bonito eat mackerel, menhaden, alewives, silversides, sand lance, and other fishes, as well as squid. | |||||||
Atlantic bumper | ||||||||
Atlantic croaker | ||||||||
Largehead hairtail | ||||||||
Atlantic moonfish | ||||||||
Atlantic needlefish | ||||||||
Atlantic sharpnose shark | ||||||||
Atlantic silverside | ||||||||
Atlantic spadefish | ||||||||
Atlantic stingray | ||||||||
Atlantic sturgeon | ||||||||
Atlantic tarpon | ||||||||
Atlantic torpedo | ||||||||
Balloonfish | ||||||||
Ballyhoo | ||||||||
Banded butterflyfish | ||||||||
Banded cichlid | Heros severus | |||||||
Bandtail puffer | ||||||||
Bandtail searobin | ||||||||
Bank butterflyfish | ||||||||
Bar jack | ||||||||
Barbfish | ||||||||
Barred hamlet | ||||||||
Basking shark | The second largest living fish after the whale shark. | |||||||
Bearded brotula | ||||||||
Beaugregory | ||||||||
Belted sandfish | ||||||||
Bermuda chub | ||||||||
Bicolor damselfish | ||||||||
Bigeye scad | ||||||||
Bigeye | ||||||||
Bigmouth sleeper | ||||||||
Black crappie | Pomoxis nigromaculatus | |||||||
Black drum | ||||||||
Black durgon | ||||||||
Black grouper | ||||||||
Black jack | ||||||||
Black margate | ||||||||
Black seabass | ||||||||
Blackbar soldierfish | ||||||||
Blackcheek tonguefish | ||||||||
Blacktip shark | ||||||||
Blue angelfish | ||||||||
Blue chromis | ||||||||
Blue marlin | ||||||||
Blue parrotfish | ||||||||
Blue runner | ||||||||
Blue shark | ||||||||
Blue striped grunt | ||||||||
Blue tang | ||||||||
Bluefish | ||||||||
Bluegill | Lepomis macrochirus | |||||||
Bluehead wrasse | ||||||||
Bluespotted cornetfish | ||||||||
Bluntnose stingray | ||||||||
Bonefish | ||||||||
Bonnethead | ||||||||
Bowfin | Amia calva | |||||||
Brown Bullhead | Ameiurus nebulosus | |||||||
Brown chromis | ||||||||
Brown garden eel | ||||||||
Bucktooth parrotfish | ||||||||
Buffalo trunkfish | ||||||||
Bull shark | ||||||||
Bullet mackerel | ||||||||
Bullseye snakehead | Channa marulius | |||||||
Butter hamlet | ||||||||
Butterfish | ||||||||
Caesar grunt | ||||||||
Cardinal soldierfish | ||||||||
Caribbean sharpnose-puffer | ||||||||
Cero mackerel | ||||||||
Chain dogfish | ||||||||
Chain moray | ||||||||
Chalk bass | ||||||||
Channel Catfish | Ictalurus punctatus | |||||||
Checkered puffer | ||||||||
Cherub fish | ||||||||
Clearnose skate | ||||||||
Clown goby | ||||||||
Clown wrasse | ||||||||
Cobia | ||||||||
Cocoa damselfish | ||||||||
Collared eel | ||||||||
Colon goby | ||||||||
Common carp | Cyprinus carpio | |||||||
Conchfish | ||||||||
Coney | ||||||||
Cottonwick | ||||||||
Cownose ray | ||||||||
Creole wrasse | ||||||||
Creole-fish | ||||||||
Crevalle Jack | ||||||||
Cuban dogfish | ||||||||
Cubbyu | ||||||||
Cubera snapper | ||||||||
Darter goby | ||||||||
Dash goby | ||||||||
Diamond blenny | ||||||||
Diamond killifish | ||||||||
Doctorfish | ||||||||
Dog snapper | ||||||||
Dolphinfish | ||||||||
Dusky cardinalfish | ||||||||
Dusky damselfish | Stegastes adustus | |||||||
Dusky pipefish | ||||||||
Dusky squirrelfish | ||||||||
Dwarf frogfish | ||||||||
Dwarf goatfish | ||||||||
Dwarf herring | ||||||||
Eastern mosquitofish | Gambusia holbrooki | |||||||
Eyed flounder | ||||||||
False pilchard | ||||||||
Fat sleeper | ||||||||
Flagfish | Jordanella floridae | |||||||
Flamefish | ||||||||
Flat needlefish | ||||||||
Flier | Centrarchus macropterus | |||||||
Florida Gar | Lepisopsteus platyrhincus | |||||||
Florida pompano | ||||||||
Flying gurnard | ||||||||
Foureye butterflyfish | ||||||||
Freckled cardinalfish | ||||||||
Freckled soapfish | ||||||||
French angelfish | ||||||||
French grunt | ||||||||
Freshwater goby | ||||||||
Frillfin goby | ||||||||
Fringed filefish | ||||||||
Gafftopsail catfish | ||||||||
Gag grouper | ||||||||
Glasseye snapper | ||||||||
Glassy sweeper | ||||||||
Golden tilefish | ||||||||
Goldentail moray | ||||||||
Goldfish | Carassius auratus | |||||||
Goldline blenny | ||||||||
Goldspotted eel | ||||||||
Goliath grouper | ||||||||
Grass carp | Centropharyngodon idella | |||||||
Grass porgy | ||||||||
Gray angelfish | ||||||||
Gray snapper | ||||||||
Graysby | ||||||||
Great barracuda | ||||||||
Great hammerhead | ||||||||
Greater amberjack | ||||||||
Greater soapfish | ||||||||
Green moray | ||||||||
Gulf flounder | ||||||||
Gulf killifish | ||||||||
Gulf kingfish | ||||||||
Gulf pipefish | ||||||||
Gulf toadfish | ||||||||
Hairy blenny | ||||||||
Hardhead catfish | ||||||||
Harlequin bass | ||||||||
High-hat (fish) | ||||||||
Hogchoker | Trinectes maculatus | |||||||
Hogfish | ||||||||
Horned searobin | ||||||||
Horse-eye jack | ||||||||
Houndfish | ||||||||
Hovering goby | ||||||||
Indigo Hamlet | ||||||||
Inshore lizardfish | ||||||||
Jack Dempsey (fish) | Rochio octafasciata | |||||||
Jack-knifefish | ||||||||
Jaguar guapote | Cichlasoma manguensis | |||||||
Jolthead porgy | ||||||||
Key brotula | ||||||||
King mackerel | ||||||||
Knobbed porgy | ||||||||
Ladyfish | ||||||||
Lancer dragonet | ||||||||
Lane snapper | ||||||||
Lantern bass | ||||||||
Largemouth Bass | Micropterus salmoides | |||||||
Leatherjack | ||||||||
Lemon shark | ||||||||
Leopard goby | ||||||||
Lesser electric ray | ||||||||
Lined seahorse | ||||||||
Little tunny | ||||||||
Longear sunfish | Lepomis megalotis | |||||||
Longfin damselfish | ||||||||
Longlure frogfish | ||||||||
Longnose gar | Lepisosteus osseus | |||||||
Longsnout butterflyfish | ||||||||
Longspine squirrelfish | ||||||||
Lookdown | ||||||||
Lyre goby | ||||||||
Mahogany snapper | ||||||||
Mangrove snapper | ||||||||
Man-of-war fish | ||||||||
Manta ray | ||||||||
Manytooth conger | ||||||||
Marbled grouper | ||||||||
Margate | ||||||||
Mayan cichlid | Cichlasoma urophthalmus | |||||||
Metallic lanternfish | ||||||||
Midas cichlid | Amphilophus citrinellus | |||||||
Midnight parrotfish | ||||||||
Misty grouper | ||||||||
Molly miller | ||||||||
Mottled jawfish | ||||||||
Mozambique Tilapia | Oreochromis mossambicus | |||||||
Mummichog | Fundulus heteroclitus | |||||||
Mutton hamlet | ||||||||
Mutton snapper | ||||||||
Naked sole | ||||||||
Nassau grouper | ||||||||
Neon goby | ||||||||
Night sergeant | ||||||||
Night shark | ||||||||
Nurse shark | ||||||||
Ocean sunfish | ||||||||
Ocean surgeon | ||||||||
Ocean triggerfish | ||||||||
Ocellated flounder | ||||||||
Ocellated frogfish | ||||||||
Orangespotted filefish | ||||||||
Orangespotted goby | ||||||||
Oyster toadfish | ||||||||
Peacock bass | Cichla osellaris | |||||||
Pigfish (Redmouth grunt) | ||||||||
Pinfish | ||||||||
Porkfish | ||||||||
Puddingwife wrasse | ||||||||
Queen angelfish | ||||||||
Queen triggerfish | ||||||||
Red drum | ||||||||
Red grouper | ||||||||
Red snapper | ||||||||
Redear sunfish | Lepomis microlophus | |||||||
Redtail parrotfish | ||||||||
Rio Grande Cichlid | Herichthys cyanoguttatum | |||||||
Round scad | ||||||||
Roundel skate | ||||||||
Sailor's grunt | ||||||||
Sand drum | ||||||||
Sand perch | ||||||||
Sand seatrout | ||||||||
Schoolmaster snapper | ||||||||
Scrawled cowfish | ||||||||
Sergeant major (fish) | ||||||||
Sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus) | ||||||||
Silver mullet | ||||||||
Slippery dick | ||||||||
Smalltooth sawfish | ||||||||
Smooth dogfish | ||||||||
Snook (Centropomidae) | ||||||||
Southern puffer | ||||||||
Southern stingray | ||||||||
Spanish hogfish | ||||||||
Spanish mackerel | ||||||||
Speckled seatrout | ||||||||
Spottail pinfish | ||||||||
Spotted eagle ray | ||||||||
Spotted gar | Lepisopsteus oculatus | |||||||
Spotted scorpionfish | ||||||||
Spotted tilapia | Pelmatolapia mariae | |||||||
Striped bass | Morone saxatilis | |||||||
Striped mullet | ||||||||
Tadpole madtom | Noturus gyrinus | |||||||
Tomtate | ||||||||
Tripletail | ||||||||
Vermilion snapper | ||||||||
Walking catfish | Clarias batrachus | |||||||
Warmouth | Lepomis gulosus | |||||||
Whale shark | ||||||||
White catfish | Ictalurus catus | |||||||
White Grunt (fish) | ||||||||
Yellow bullhead | Ameiurus natalis | |||||||
Yellow jack | ||||||||
Yellowtail snapper | ||||||||
Common lionfish | Pterois miles | |||||||
Red lionfish | Pterois voltians | |||||||