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Also known as the pennant-fish and threadfin trevally. [4] African tigerfish: Hydrocynus vittatus: Alabama bass: Micropterus henshalli: Alabama shad: Alosa alabamae: Albacore: Thunnus alalunga: Alewife: Alosa pseudoharengus: Alligator gar: Atractosteus spatula: Largest exclusively freshwater fish found in North America, measuring 8 to 10 feet ...
The Lake Eustis and the nearby lakes is the sole home of a species of pupfish named the Lake Eustis pupfish (cyprinodon variegatus hubbsi). The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission list the fish as a state species of special concern that is imperiled due to its small geographic distribution in heavily populated central Florida.
One subspecies of wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, namely subspecies osceola, is found only in Florida. [24] The state is a wintering location for many species of eastern North American birds. There have been small numbers of several new species normally native to cooler areas to the north: snowy owls, snow buntings, harlequin ducks, and ...
Like the largemouth bass, Florida bass, can be found in a wide variety of waterbodies, it occurs in large lakes, rivers, and reservoirs, to smaller waterbodies such as swamps, ponds, and creek pools. Although this species may prosper in many aquatic environments, it tends to be most numerous in warm, densely vegetated eutrophic lakes, rivers ...
Views of Lake Apopka from its southern shore; 2004 and 2011 respectively. Lake Apopka, as viewed from a commercial flight on January 21, 2012. Aerial of downtown Orlando, Florida. Lake Apopka is seen in the upper-right of the photo. Lake Apopka is the fourth largest lake in the U.S. state of Florida. [1]
Lake Okeechobee (US: / oʊ k i ˈ tʃ oʊ b i / oh-kee-CHOH-bee) [1] is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. [2] It is the eighth-largest natural freshwater lake among the 50 states of the United States and the second-largest natural freshwater lake contained entirely within the contiguous 48 states, after Lake Michigan.
Lochloosa Lake is a lake about 5,700 acres (2,300 ha) [1] in area in Alachua County, Florida, near Hawthorne, and is up to 10 feet (3.0 m) deep. [2] It is drained by Cross Creek into Orange Lake . It is largely surrounded by the Lochloosa Wildlife Management Area and is a Fish Management Area.
Mallard Lake (Florida) Lake Mary Jane (Highlands County, Florida) Lake McCoy; McKissack Ponds; Lake Miccosukee; Lake Minnehaha; Lake Minneola; Mirror Lake (Lake Placid) Lake Monroe (Florida) Moody Lake; Lake Morton (Florida) Mud Lake (Florida) Mud Lake (Highlands County, Florida) Lake Murphy (Florida)