Birmingham Southern College

January 2001

Species List

Common Name

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Scientific Name

Four Eye Butterfly Fish / Chaetodon capsitratus
Queen Angelfish / Holocanthus ciliaris
Doctorfish / Acanthurus chirurgus
Bar Jack / Caranx ruber
Great Barracuda / Sphyraena arracuda
Hound Fish / Tylosurus crocodiles
Gray Snapper / Lutjanus griseus
Yellow-tailed Snapper / Ocyurus chrysurus
French Grunt / Haemulon flavolineatum
Sergeant Major / Abudefduf saxatilis
Indigo Hamlet / Hypoplectus indigo
Nassau Grouper / Epinephelus striatus
Fairy Basslet / Gramma loreto
Princess Parrotfish / Scarus taeopterus
Stoplight Parrotfish / Sparisma viride
Yellow-tailed Parrotfish / Sparisoma rubripinne
Slippery Dick / Halichoeres bivittatus
Blue-headed Wrasse / Thalassoma bifasciatum
Squirrelfish / Holocentrus adscensionis
Long-spine Squirrelfish / Holocentrus rufus
Black Bar Soldierfish / Myripristis jacobus
Peacock Flounder / Bothus lunatus
Blue-striped Lizardfish / Synodus saorus
Sand Diver / Synodus intermedius
Trumpet Fish / Aulostomus maculatus
Smooth Trunkfish / Lactophrys triqueter
Yellow Goatfish / Mulluidicathys martinicus
Spotted Goatfish / Pseudupeneus maculatus
Nurse Shark / Ginglymostoma cirratum
Chain Moray Eel / Echiodna catenata
Sharptail Eel / Myrichthys breviceps
Rock Beauty / Holacanthus tricolor
Mirrorwing Flyingfish / Hirundicathys speculiger
Yellow-tailed Damselfish / Microspathodon chysurus
Dusky Damselfish / Stegastes fuscus
Beaugregory / Stegastes leuicastictus
Blue Chromis / Chromis cyanea
Brown Chromis / Chromis multilineata
Dusky Damselfish / Stegastes fuscus
Red Hind / Epinephelus guitatus
Porcupine Fish / Pcodon hystrix

Invertebrates

Branching Tube Sponge / Pseudoceratina crassia
West Indian Sea Egg / Tripneustes ventricosus
Black Ball Sponge / Ircinia strobilina
Upside Down Jelly / Cassiopeia frondosa
Sun Anemone / Stichodactyla helianthus
Corkscrew Anemone / Bartholomea annulata
Sea Walnut / Mnemiopsis mecradyi
Spagetti Worm / Eupolymnia crassicornis
Social Featherduster Worm / Bispira brunnea
Winged Comb Jelly / Ocyropsis crystalline
Magnificent Feather Duster Worm / Sabellastarte magnifica
Christmas Tree Worm / Spirobranchs giganteus
Banded Coral Shrimp / Stenodus hispious
Queen Conch / Strombus gigas
Flamingo Tongue Snail / Cyphoma Gibbosum
Ruby Brittle Star / Ophioderma lubicundum
Donkey Dung Sea Cucumber / Holothuria mexicana
Long Spine Sea Urchin / Diadema antillarum
Reef Urchin / Echinometra viridis
Fire Coral / Millepora sp.
Porous Sea Rods / Pseudoplexaura sp.
Sea Plume / Pseudopteragorgia sp.
Common Sea Fan / Gorgonia ventalina
Finger Coral / Porites porites
Smooth Star Coral / Solenastrea bournoni
Brain Coral / Diplora sp.
Bearded Fireworm / Hemodile carunculata

Brown Fanworm

/ Notaulax nudicllis
Caribbean Reef Octopus / Octopus briareus
Sponge Brittle Star / Ophiothrix suensonii
Furry Sea Cucumber / Astichopus multifidus

Marine Algae

Sargassum Algae / Sargassum sp.
Watercress Algae / Halimeda discoidea
Tubular Thicket Algae / Galaxaura sp.
Sea Pearl / Ventricaria ventricosa

Tropical Plants

Tamarind / Tamarindus indica
Banana / Musa sp.
Manchineel / Hippomane mancinella
Sea Grape / Coccoloba uvifera

Reptiles

Green Sea Turtle / Chelonia mydas

Marine Mammals

Sperm Whale / Physeter macrocephalus