Florent's Guide To The

South Florida Reefs

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Creole Wrasse - Bodianus parrae
Indo-Pacific Swimming Crab - Charybdis hellerii
Common Squat Lobster - Iridonida pusilla
Blue Chromis - Azurina cyanea
Brown Chromis - Azurina multilineata
White Stinger - Macrorhynchia philippina
Slit-Pore Sea Rods - Plexaura spp.
Black Sea Rod - Plexaura homomalla
Bent Sea Rod - Plexaura flexuosula
Smooth Flower Coral - Eusmilia fastigiata
Blushing Star Coral - Stephanocoenia intersepta
Sunray Lettuce Coral - Helioseris cucullata
Reef Tunicate - Rhopalaea abdominalis
Squamose Chiton - Chiton squamosus
Florida Fighting Conch - Strombus pugilis
Atlantic White-Spotted Octopus - Pinnoctopus macropus
Atlantic Gray Cowry - Luria cinerea
Pelagic Nudibranch - Phylliroe bucephala
Red-Tipped Sea Goddess - Doriprismatica sedna
Elongated Vase Sponge - Callyspongia longissima
Red Boring Sponge - Cliothosa delitrix
Pink Lumpy Sponge - Monanchora unguifera
Erect Rope Sponge - Amphimedon nodosa
White Scroll Alga - Padina sanctae-crucis
Elliptical Star Coral - Dichocoenia stokesii
Split-Crown Feather Duster - Anamobaea orstedii
Black-Spotted Feather Duster - Branchiomma nigromaculatum
Banded Clinging Crab - Mithraculus cinctimanus
Giant Manta Ray - Mobula birostris
Knobby Brain Coral - Pseudodiploria clivosa
Channel Clinging Crab - Maguimithrax spinosissimus
Beaded Crinoid - Davidaster discoideus
Branching Anemone - Lebrunia neglecta
Warty Sea Anemone - Bunodosoma cavernatum
Honeycomb Cowfish - Acanthostracion polygonium
Dusky Squirrelfish - Neoniphon vexillarium
Southern Stingray - Hypanus americanus
Variegated Feather Duster - Bispira melanostigma
Sponge Brittle Star - Ophiothrix suensonii
Devil's Sea Whip - Ellisella barbadensis
Circle-Marked Brittle Star - Ophioderma cinereum
Spiny Brittle Star - Breviturma paucigranulata
Bar Jack - Caranx ruber
Yellow Jack - Caranx bartholomaei
Smooth Star Coral - Solenastrea bournoni
Mangrove Upsidedown Jelly - Cassiopea xamachana
Spottail Pinfish - Diplodus holbrookii
Bobbit Worm - Eunice aphroditois
Nine-Armed Sea Star - Luidia senegalensis
Yellowhead Jawfish - Opistognathus aurifrons
Flame Box Crab - Calappa flammea
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Yellow Garden Eel - Heteroconger luteolus
Seaweed Blenny - Parablennius marmoreus
Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber - Isostichopus badionotus
Porkfish - Anisotremus virginicus
Twospot Cardinalfish - Apogon pseudomaculatus
Polka-Dot Batfish - Ogcocephalus cubifrons
Long-Spined Urchin - Diadema antillarum
Two-Spined Sea Star - Astropecten duplicatus
Slate Pencil Urchin - Eucidaris tribuloides
Variegated Urchin - Lytechinus variegatus
High Hat - Pareques acuminatus
Banded Coral Shrimp - Stenopus hispidus
Slippery Dick - Halichoeres bivittatus
French Angelfish - Pomacanthus paru
Yellow Stingray - Urobatis jamaicensis
Goldspot Goby - Gnatholepis thompsoni
Masquerader Hairy Blenny - Labrisomus conditus
Channel Flounder - Syacium micrurum
Sharptail Eel - Myrichthys breviceps
Bandtail Puffer - Sphoeroides spengleri
Red Lionfish - Pterois volitans
Tomtate - Haemulon aurolineatum
Grooved-Blade Sea Whip - Pterogorgia guadalupensis
Rock Beauty - Holacanthus tricolor
Blue Angelfish - Holacanthus bermudensis
Reef Butterflyfish - Chaetodon sedentarius
Whitespotted Filefish - Cantherhines macrocerus
Blackear Wrasse - Halichoeres poeyi
Doctorfish - Acanthurus chirurgus
Spanish Hogfish - Bodianus rufus
Orangespotted Filefish - Cantherhines pullus
Saucereye Porgy - Calamus calamus
Blue Glaucus - Glaucus atlanticus
Cannonball Jellyfish - Stomolophus meleagris
By-the-Wind Sailor - Velella velella
Portuguese Man o' War - Physalia physalis
Blackpoint Sculling Crab - Cronius ruber
Speckled Swimming Crab - Arenaeus cribrarius
Ballyhoo - Hemiramphus brasiliensis
Atlantic Blue Crab - Callinectes sapidus
Boga - Haemulon vittatum
Red Banded Lobster - Justitia longimana
Atlantic Horseshoe Crab - Limulus polyphemus
Spotted Goatfish - Pseudupeneus maculatus
Atlantic Spadefish - Chaetodipterus faber
Yellowline Arrow Crab - Stenorhynchus seticornis
Greater Soapfish - Rypticus saponaceus
Jelly Hydromedusa - Aequorea forskalea
Moon Jelly - Aurelia aurita

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