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Coastal Habitats
Animals of the Gulf Waters
Cownose ray
Rhinoptera bonasus
Cownose rays are easy to tell from other rays because their foreheads project over their deeply notched snouts.
These rays suck snails, oysters, crabs and other shellfish from the bottom of shallow mud and sand flats. Like other rays, cownose rays have platelike teeth with which they grind up their food.
Animals of the Gulf Waters
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Barred grunt
Great barracuda
Greater amberjack
Cobia
Permit
Lesser electric ray
Bighead sea robin
Bay whiff
Sand seatrout
Striped bass
Silver seatrout
Atlantic cutlassfish
Yellowtail snapper
Lane snapper
Rock hind
Red snapper
Tarpon
Atlantic spadefish
Vermilion snapper
Bluefish
Scamp
Dolphin fish
Tripletail
Snook
Great hammerhead
Bull shark
Lemon shark
Blacktip shark
Atlantic stingray
Cownose ray
Yellowfin tuna
Atlantic bonito
Jewfish
