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Coastal Habitats
Animals of the Gulf Waters
Snook
Centropomus undecimalis
Snook are tropical fish that visit when Texas waters are warm enough. They spend time in both fresh and salt water, never far from seawater when they're upriver and never far from fresh water when they're in the Gulf.
The lateral line—that black stripe down a snook's sides—helps them sense fish and other objects in the water around them.
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
