Family Clinidae 



Chaenopsis ocellata Poey 



Paraclinus marmoratus (Steindachner) 



Blennius marmoreus Poey 

 Sphyraena barracuda (Walbaum) 



Mugil curema Valenciennes 

 Mugil cephalus Linnaeus 



Membra s martinica (Valenciennes) 

 Allanetta harringtonensis (Goode) 



Achirus lineatus (Linnaeus) 

 Gobiesox strumosus Cope 



Family Blenniidae 



Family Sphyraenidae 



Family Mugilidae 



Family Atherinidae 



Family Soleidae 

 Family Gobiesocidae 



Family Ostraciidae 



Acanthostracion quadricornis (Linnaeus) 



Family Tetraodontidae 

 Sphaeroides nephelus (Goode and Bean) 



Family Diodontidae 

 Chilomycterus schoepfi (Walbaum) 



Family Batrachoididae 

 Opsanus beta (Goode and Bean) 



Family Callionymidae 

 Callionymus pauciradiatus Gill 



MARINE MAMMALS 

 Family Delphinidae 



Tursiops truncatus Montague 



Bluethroat pikeblenny 

 Marbled blenny 



Seaweed blenny 



Great barracuda 



White mullet 

 Striped mullet 



Rough silver side 

 Reef silverside 



Lined sole 



Skilletfish 



Cowfish 



Southern puffer 



Striped burrfish 



Gulf toadfish 



Spotted dragonet 



Bottlenose dolphin 



ECOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS 



Our survey revealed 169 genera and 196 

 species of plants and animals in Porpoise Lake. 

 Benthic forms made up 73 percent of the ani- 

 mals listed, and many of them are well-known 

 associates of the seagrass community. The 

 importance of seagrass beds as habitats for 

 small marine animals has been stressed by 

 Phillips (1960), Moore (1963), and Hoe se and 

 Jones (1963), among others. We found that young 

 pink shrimp and many small benthic animals 

 (annelids, moUusks, crustaceans, and fishes) 



were present throughout the year in shallow 

 Thalassia beds bordering the lake. Species not 

 usually found in these seagrass beds inhabited 

 the channels transecting the banks of the lake. 

 These species included the knobby star coral 

 ( Solenastrea hyades ), the long-spined sea ur- 

 chin ( Diadema antillarum ). the spiny lobster 

 ( Panulirus argus ), and the schoolmaster ( Lut- 

 janus apodus ). Although these species are com- 

 mon on the Atlantic side of the Florida Keys 

 (Springer and McErlean, 1962; Turmel and 



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