Fish living in the Gulf of Mexico

Grouper, Yellowfin

Mycteroperca venenosa

The body is relatively tall and oval. The coloration of the yellowfin grouper is very variable: …

Grunt, Bluestriped

Haemulon sciurus

The bluestriped grunt is distinguished from all others by its pattern of continuous blue horizontal stripes …

Grunt, French

Haemulon flavolineatum

Its coloring is white to bluish or yellowish, with bright-yellow stripes. The stripes set below the …

Grunt, White

Haemulon plumieri

The body is tall, flattened from the sides. The head is large, massive: its profile from …

Guitarfish, Atlantic

Rhinobatos lentiginosus

The head and pectoral fins form a triangular disk at the front of the body. The …

Hagfish

Myxine glutinosa

Fish-like vertebrates, jawless fish are similar in shape to eels, with a cartilaginous or fibrous skeleton …

Hake, Red

Urophycis chuss

The body of the red hake is elongated. The caudal fin is truncated. There is a …

Hind, Rock

Epinephelus adscensionis

It has a coloration from tan to olive-brown, with many large reddish or dark spots covering …

Jack, Bar

Caranx ruber

The Bar jack is silvery, with a dark bluish stripe on the back that runs from …

Jack, Crevalle; Jack, Pacific Crevalle

Caranx hippos; Caranx caninus

Both species are bluish-green or greenish gold on the back and silvery or yellowish on the …

Jack, Horse-eye

Caranx latus

The horse-eye is silvery, with yellow caudal fins and usually darker edges on the dorsal and …

Ladyfish

Elops saurus

The ladyfish has an elongated, slender, silvery body with a blue-green back and fine scales. It …

Lookdown

Selene vomer

Brightly silvery and iridescent, it has a deep and extremely compressed body, which can have golden, …

Mackerel, Spanish

Scomberomorus maculatus

The slender, elongated body of the Spanish mackerel is silver with a bluish or olive green …

Marlin, White

Tetrapturus albidus

The body is powerful, elongated, strongly flattened from the sides. Snout in form of elongated, rostrum, …

Palometa

Trachinotus goodei

A bright silvery fish with a deep body, it can be grayish green and blue on …

Pigfish

Orthopristis chrysoptera

The fish has long anal fins corresponding in shape and size to the soft dorsal fin. …

Pinfish

Lagodon rhomboides

The fish has an elongate-oval, compressed body, with the head raised high in the area in …

Pollock

Pollachius virens

It has an olive-green or greenish-brown color on top and yellowish-gray on the sides and belly, …

Porgy, Jolthead

Calamus bajonado

The body is elongated, tall and strongly compressed from the sides. The high, rounded forehead gives …

Runner, Blue

Caranx crysos

The body is bluish-green to coppery-silver, silvery, or light olive. The upper end of the gill …

Runner, Rainbow

Elagatis bipinnulata

Body prostrate, torpedo-shaped. Head is pointed, mandibles protrude forward. Mouth small, upper jaw not reach vertical …

Sea Bass, Black

Centropristis striata

The black sea bass has a relatively strong body with a length (not including the tail) …

Seatrout, Sand

Cynoscion arenarius

Its coloration is pale yellow on the back and silvery white underneath, without any clear spots. …