Education
Coastal Habitats
Animals of the Gulf Waters
Atlantic spadefish
Chaetodipterus faber
Atlantic spadefish may look like angelfish but you can tell them apart by counting the fins on their backs. If they have two dorsal fins, they're spadefish; if they have only one, they're angelfish.
Spadefish live in bays near jetties and pilings while they're small and move out to natural and artificial reefs when they grow larger.
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
