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Coastal Habitats
Animals of the Gulf Waters
Rock hind
Epinephelus adscensionis
Rock hinds are one of the most common groupers found along the Texas Gulf Coast. They live near jetties and on snapper banks.
Like other groupers, rock hinds can vary on color but most often they're pale with red to brown spots on their bodies, fins and even on their tails.
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
