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Fishing Identification

Diagram appears twice on this page for ease of reference.
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1. Total Length 2. Fork Length
3. Standard Length 4. Head Length
5. Snout Length 6. Caudal peduncle (where the body attaches to the tail)
7. Fin rays, spinous (unsegmented) and soft (segmented) 8. First (spinous) dorsal fin
9. Second (soft) dorsal fin 10. Pectoral fin
11. Pelvic (ventral) fin 12. Anal fin
13. Finlet 14. Caudal (tail) fin
15. Lateral line 16. Scutes (bone-like projections
17. Opercle (gill cover) 18. Preopercle (cheek)
19. Interopercle 20. Adipose eyelid
21. Supramaxilla (rear portion of upper jaw bone) 22. Premaxilla (forward portion of upper jaw bone)
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Index by common name

 

Billfishes: Blue Marlin | Longbill Spearfish | Sailfish | White Marlin
Bluefish: Bluefish
Bonefish: Bonefish
Cobia: Cobia (ling)
Dolphin: Dolphin
Drums: Atlantic Croaker | Black Drum | Red Drum (redfish) | Sand Seatrout | Silver Seatrout | Spotted Seatrout | Silver Perch (yellowtail) | Weakfish
Flounder: (Lefteye Flounders) Gulf Flounder
Grouper: Black Grouper | Gag | Goliath | Nassau Grouper | Red Grouper | Scamp | Yellowfin Grouper | Yellowmouth GrouperBank Sea Bass | Black Sea Bass | Rock Sea Bass
Grunt: White Grunt
Herring: American Shad
Jacks: Almaco Jack | Banded Rudderfish | Blue Runner | Cervalle Jack | Greater Amberjack | Lesser Amberjack | Florida Pompano | Palometa | Permit
Mackerels & Tunas: Cero | King Mackerel | Spanish Mackerel
Mullets: Fantail Mullet | Striped (Black) Mullet
Porgy: Grass | Jolthead | Knobbed |Littlehead | Pinfish | Red Porgy | Sheepshead | Spottail Pinfish
Sharks: Atlantic Sharpnose Shark | Bonnethead Shark | Sandbar Shark | Scalloped Hammerhead | Shortfin Mako
Snappers: Blackfin Snapper | Cubera Snapper | Dog Snapper | Gray Snapper | Lane Snapper | Mahogany Snapper | Mutton Snapper | Queen Snapper | Red Snapper | Schoolmaster | Silk Snapper | Vermilion Snapper | Yellowtail Snapper
Snook: Fat Snook | Common Snook | Swordspine Snook | Tarpon Snook
Spadefish: Atlantic Spadefish
Swordfish: Swordfish
Tarpons: Ladyfish | Tarpon

 

 

 

 

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