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

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