Table 18. (Concluded.) 



Species 



Scientific name 



Common name 



Aoalachicola 

 Fishes 



Bay 



Anchoa mitchil 1 i 



Anchoa hepsetus 

 NIemdia beryll ina 

 Eucinostomus quia 

 Synodus foetens 

 Stronqyiura marina 

 Lucania parva 

 Fundulus similis 

 Synqnathus floridae 

 Lagodon rhomboides 

 Leiostomus xanthurus 

 BairdieTTa chrysoura 

 Cynoscion ne^bulosus 

 Mugil cephalus 

 Orthopristis chrysoptera 

 Opsanus beta 



Invertebrates 



Callinectes sapidus 

 Palaemonetes pugio 

 Palaemonetes vulqaris 

 Palaemonetes intermedium 

 Penaeus setiferus 



Penaeus duorarum 

 Penaeus aztecus 

 Neopanope texana 



bay anchovy 

 striped anchovy 

 inland silverside 

 silver jenny 

 inshore lizardfish 

 Atlantic needlefish 

 rainwater kil lif ish 

 longnose kil lif ish 

 dusky pipefish 

 pinf ish 

 spot 



silver perch 

 spotted seatrout 

 striped mullet 

 pig fish 

 gulf toad fish 



blue crab 

 grass shrimp 

 grass shrimp 

 grass shrimp 

 white shrimp 

 pink shrimp 

 brown shrimp 

 mud crab 



the American eel ( Anquil la rostrata ) , 

 hoqchoker ( Trinectes maculatus ), and 

 mountain mulTet ( Agonostomus monitcola ) . 

 Various other freshwater species and some 

 marine forms, such as strioed mullet 

 ( Muqil cephalus ) and the southern flounder 

 ( Paral ichthys lethostiqma ), occur in the 

 lower river and estuary although thev do 

 not make true migrations. 



The estuarine dominants such as 

 sciaenid fishes, penaeid shrimp, and blue 

 crabs have annual migrations during which 

 the adults spawn offshore, the larval and 

 juvenile stages move into the estuarine 

 nursery, and finally the subadults return 

 to the open gulf to spawn as adults. Most 

 such species are either marine-estuarine 

 or estuarine. Oesterling and Evink (1°77) 



studied migratory habits o^ blue crabs 

 along the Gulf coast of Florida (Figure 

 ?R). Adult blue crabs spawn offshore and 

 the larvae, after going through a series 

 of zoeal (planktonic) stages, metamorphose 

 into a single megalops staqe that has both 

 Dlanktonic and benthic features (Figure 

 28). The meqalops eventually molts into 

 the first crab stage, which develops 

 mainly within the estuarine nursery 

 grounds. The authors found that female 

 crabs move northward alonq the oulf coast 

 of Florida, some as far as SDO km. Few 

 males move more than 40 or 50 km. Such 

 migrations appear to be linked to spawning 

 within the Apalachicola offshore area 

 (from the Ochlockonee River drainage to 

 the Apalachicola River drainaqe). Larqe 

 numbers of egg-bearing females are 



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