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Coastal Habitats
Animals of the Nearshore Waters
Gulf kingfish
Menticirrhus littoralis
Gulf kingfish, also called Gulf whiting, live in small schools in the surf along the Texas coast. Young kingfish sometimes move into the shallows in coastal bays.
Like their relatives the southern kingfish, Gulf kingfish feed on bottom-dwelling animals such as worms, clams and other shellfish.
Animals of the Nearshore Waters
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Brown tube sponge- (no image available)
Leafy jewel box 
Red boring sponge
Red-orange encrusting sponge
Tree oyster
Ivory bush coral
Cup coral
Pearly red encrusting bryozoan
Black drum
Crevalle jack
Florida pompano
Sand seatrout
Tarpon
Gulf kingfish
Southern kingfish
Spot
Pigfish
