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Florida Museum of Natural History

Index Florida Museum of Natural History

The Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) is Florida's official state-sponsored and chartered natural-history museum. [1]

241 relations: Acanthuridae, Alepocephalidae, Alligator, Amelia Island, American Institute of Architects, American kestrel, Anchovy, Andes, Angelshark, Antbird, Antigua, Apalachicola River, Apogonidae, Archaeology, Armored searobin, Aruba, Ascension Island, Aulopiformes, Bachman's warbler, Bald eagle, Barbados, Barracuda, Batrachoididae, Biological Resources Discipline, Bishop Museum, Botany, Bothidae, Branchiostomidae, Brazil, Broad-winged hawk, Butterfly, Butterfly ray, Butterflyfish, Calusa, Caproidae, Carangidae, Caribbean, Carolina parakeet, Catostomidae, Catshark, Cayman Islands, Cenozoic, Central America, Centrarchidae, Chaenopsidae, Charles R. Knight, Clapper rail, Clinidae, Clupeidae, Combtooth blenny, ..., Congridae, Corvidae, Cross Florida Barge Canal, Curaçao, Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Cusk-eels, Cyprinidae, Dominican Republic, Dusky seaside sparrow, Eagle ray, Eel, Eglin Air Force Base, Environmental archaeology, Eocene, Ethnography, Etowah Indian Mounds, Field Museum of Natural History, Filefish, Fish, Florida, Florida panther, Florida State University, Flying fish, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Fundulidae, Gadidae, Gainesville, Florida, Gar, Gastropoda, Goatfish, Gobiesocidae, Goby, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guitarfish, Gulf of Guinea, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haemulidae, Haiti, Halfbeak, Hammerhead shark, Hernando de Soto, Herpetology, Herring smelt, Historical archaeology, Holocene, Holocentridae, Holotype, Houndshark, Hydrology, Ichthyology, Ictaluridae, Isla de Providencia, Ivory-billed woodpecker, Jaguar, Jamaica, Lepidoptera, Lesser Antilles, London, Lutjanidae, Macrouridae, Madagascar, Malacology, Mammalogy, Mangrove, Marie-Galante, Marineland of Florida, Martinique, Megalodon, Mexico, Miami, Miccosukee, Miocene, Missouri, Mojarra, Mollusca, Monarch butterfly, Moray eel, Mullet (fish), National Endowment for the Humanities, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum, London, Needlefish, Neotropical realm, Northern crested caracara, Northern lampreys, Oceania, Ogcocephalidae, Old World silverside, Oligocene, Ophichthidae, Ophidiiformes, Opistognathidae, Orange Lake (Florida), Ornithology, Osprey, Osteology, Ostraciidae, Pakistan, Paleobotany, Paleontology, Palynology, Panama City, Paralichthyidae, Paratype, Parrotfish, Pascagoula, Mississippi, Passenger pigeon, Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, Pensacola, Florida, Percidae, Pitcher plant, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Poeciliidae, Pomacanthidae, Pomacentridae, Priacanthidae, Puerto Rico, Pupa, Pygmy sunfish, Red-shouldered hawk, Requiem shark, Rhinoceros, Ripley P. Bullen, Safety Harbor culture, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Salmonidae, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, San Buenaventura de Potano, Sand stargazer, Sarasota, Florida, Sciaenidae, Scombridae, Scorpaenidae, Sea chub, Sea turtle, Seminole, Serranidae, Shark, Skate (fish), Soleidae, Sombrero, Anguilla, South America, South Florida, Southeast Asia, Sparidae, Squalidae, Stomiiformes, Stromateidae, Sue (dinosaur), Sumter County, Florida, Suriname, Syngnathidae, Synodontidae, Tallahassee, Florida, Tetraodontidae, Thailand, The Bahamas, Tinamou, Titanis, Tobago, Tonguefish, Torpedinidae, Triggerfish, Triglidae, Trinidad, Trogon, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tyrannosaurus, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Virgin Islands, UnitedHealth Group, University of Florida, University of Miami, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, Walter Auffenberg, Weeden Island culture, West Indies, Whiptail stingray, William W. McGuire, Withlacoochee River (Florida), Woodpecker, Wrasse, Wren, Zoology. Expand index (191 more) »

Acanthuridae

Acanthuridae is the family of surgeonfishes, tangs, and unicornfishes.

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Alepocephalidae

Slickheads or nakedheads are a family, Alepocephalidae, of marine smelts.

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Alligator

An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae.

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Amelia Island

Amelia Island, in Nassau County, Florida, is the southernmost of the Sea Islands, a chain of barrier islands stretching along the east coast of the United States from South Carolina to Florida.

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American Institute of Architects

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States.

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American kestrel

The American kestrel (Falco sparverius) is the smallest and most common falcon in North America.

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Anchovy

An anchovy is a small, common forage fish of the family Engraulidae.

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Andes

The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

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Angelshark

The angelsharks are a group of sharks in the genus Squatina in the family Squatinidae, which are unusual in having flattened bodies and broad pectoral fins that give them a strong resemblance to rays.

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Antbird

The antbirds are a large passerine bird family, Thamnophilidae, found across subtropical and tropical Central and South America, from Mexico to Argentina.

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Antigua

Antigua, also known as Waladli or Wadadli by the native population, is an island in the West Indies.

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Apalachicola River

The Apalachicola River is a river, approximately 112 mi (180 km) long in the State of Florida.

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Apogonidae

Cardinalfishes are a family, Apogonidae, of ray-finned fishes found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans; they are chiefly marine, but some species are found in brackish water and a few (notably Glossamia) are found in fresh water.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Armored searobin

The armored searobins, or armored gurnards are a family, Peristediidae, of scorpaeniform fishes found in deep waters around the world, with most species in tropical regions.

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Aruba

Aruba (Papiamento) is an island and a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean Sea, located about west of the main part of the Lesser Antilles and north of the coast of Venezuela.

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Ascension Island

Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island, 7°56' south of the Equator in the South Atlantic Ocean.

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Aulopiformes

Aulopiformes is a diverse order of marine ray-finned fish consisting of some 15 extant and several prehistoric families with about 45 genera and over 230 species.

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Bachman's warbler

Bachman's warbler (Vermivora bachmanii) was a small passerine migratory bird that is probably extinct.

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Bald eagle

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus, from Greek ἅλς, hals "sea", αἰετός aietos "eagle", λευκός, leukos "white", κεφαλή, kephalē "head") is a bird of prey found in North America.

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Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of North America.

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Barracuda

The barracuda is a ray-finned fish known for its large size, fearsome appearance and ferocious behaviour.

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Batrachoididae

Batrachoididae is the only family in the ray-finned fish order Batrachoidiformes.

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Biological Resources Discipline

The Biological Resources Discipline (BRD) is a program of the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

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Bishop Museum

The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaii State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Bothidae

Lefteye flounders are a family, Bothidae, of flounders.

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Branchiostomidae

Branchiostomidae (syn: Branchiostomatidae) is the family that includes most of the lancelets, which are tiny chordates without a true spine but only a flexible notochord.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Broad-winged hawk

The broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus) is a small hawk of the genus Buteo.

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Butterfly

Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths.

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Butterfly ray

The butterfly rays are the rays forming the genus Gymnura and the family Gymnuridae.

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Butterflyfish

The butterflyfish are a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae; the bannerfish and coralfish are also included in this group.

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Calusa

The Calusa were a Native American people of Florida's southwest coast.

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Caproidae

Boarfishes are a small family, Caproidae, of marine fishes comprising two genera and 12 species.

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Carangidae

The Carangidae are a family of fish which includes the jacks, pompanos, jack mackerels, runners, and scads.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

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Carolina parakeet

The Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) or Carolina conure was a small green neotropical parrot with a bright yellow head, reddish orange face and pale beak native to the eastern, midwest and plains states of the United States and was the only indigenous parrot within its range, as well as one of only two parrots native to the United States (the other being the thick-billed parrot).

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Catostomidae

The Catostomidae are the suckers of the order Cypriniformes, with about 78 species in this family of freshwater fishes.

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Catshark

Catsharks are ground sharks of the family Scyliorhinidae.

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Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands is an autonomous British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea.

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Cenozoic

The Cenozoic Era meaning "new life", is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and, extending from 66 million years ago to the present day.

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Central America

Central America (América Central, Centroamérica) is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with the South American continent on the southeast.

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Centrarchidae

Centrarchidae (better known as sunfish) are a family of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Perciformes.

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Chaenopsidae

The blennioid family Chaenopsidae includes the pike-blennies, tube-blennies, and flagblennies, all perciform marine fish.

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Charles R. Knight

Charles Robert Knight (October 21, 1874 – April 15, 1953) was an American artist best known for his paintings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

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Clapper rail

The clapper rail (Rallus crepitans) is a member of the rail family, Rallidae.

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Clinidae

Clinidae is a family of blennioids; perciform marine fish.

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Clupeidae

Clupeidae is a family of ray-finned fishes, comprising, for instance, the herrings, shads, sardines, ilish, and menhadens.

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Combtooth blenny

Combtooth blennies are blennioids; perciform marine fish of the family Blenniidae.

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Congridae

The Congridae are the family of conger and garden eels.

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Corvidae

Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers.

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Cross Florida Barge Canal

The Cross Florida Barge Canal, now officially the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway is a protected green belt corridor, one mile (1.6 km) wide in most places.

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Curaçao

Curaçao (Curaçao,; Kòrsou) is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuelan coast.

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Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

The Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts theatre in Gainesville, Florida, United States.

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Cusk-eels

The cusk-eel family, Ophidiidae, is a group of marine bony fishes in the order Ophidiiformes.

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Cyprinidae

The Cyprinidae are the family of freshwater fishes, collectively called cyprinids, that includes the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives (for example, the barbs and barbels).

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Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a sovereign state located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region.

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Dusky seaside sparrow

The dusky seaside sparrow, Ammodramus maritimus nigrescens, was a non-migratory subspecies of the seaside sparrow, found in Florida in the natural salt marshes of Merritt Island and along the St. Johns River.

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Eagle ray

The eagle rays are a group of cartilaginous fishes in the family Myliobatidae, consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom.

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Eel

An eel is any ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes, which consists of four suborders, 20 families, 111 genera and about 800 species.

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Eglin Air Force Base

Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force base located approximately southwest of Valparaiso, Florida in Okaloosa County.

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Environmental archaeology

Environmental archaeology is a sub-field of archaeology and is the science of reconstructing the relationships between past societies and the environments they lived in.

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Eocene

The Eocene Epoch, lasting from, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.

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Ethnography

Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω grapho "I write") is the systematic study of people and cultures.

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Etowah Indian Mounds

Etowah Indian Mounds (9BR1) are a archaeological site in Bartow County, Georgia south of Cartersville, in the United States.

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Field Museum of Natural History

The Field Museum of Natural History, also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in the city of Chicago, and is one of the largest such museums in the world.

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Filefish

The filefish (Monacanthidae) are a diverse family of tropical to subtropical tetraodontiform marine fish, which are also known as foolfish, leatherjackets or shingles.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Florida panther

The Florida panther is an endangered population of the cougar (Puma concolor) that lives in pinelands, hardwood hammocks, and mixed swamp forests of South Florida in the United States.

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Florida State University

Florida State University (Florida State or FSU) is a public space-grant and sea-grant research university with its primary campus on a campus in Tallahassee, Florida.

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Flying fish

The Exocoetidae are a family of marine fishes in the order Beloniformes class Actinopterygii.

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Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Fort Walton Beach is a city in southern Okaloosa County, Florida, United States.

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Fundulidae

Fundulidae is the family of topminnows and North American killifishes.

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Gadidae

The Gadidae are a family of marine fish, included in the order Gadiformes, known as the cods, codfishes or true cods.

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Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville is the county seat and largest city in Alachua County, Florida, United States, and the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).

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Gar

Gars (or garpike) are members of the Lepisosteiformes (or Semionotiformes), an ancient holosteian order of ray-finned fish; fossils from this order are known from the Late Jurassic onwards.

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Gastropoda

The gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca, called Gastropoda.

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Goatfish

The goatfishes are perciform fish of the family Mullidae.

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Gobiesocidae

Clingfishes are fishes of the family Gobiesocidae, belonging to the order Gobiesociformes.

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Goby

Gobies are fishes of the family Gobiidae, one of the largest fish families comprising more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera.

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Grenada

Grenada is a sovereign state in the southeastern Caribbean Sea consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain.

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Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe (Antillean Creole: Gwadloup) is an insular region of France located in the Leeward Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.

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Guitarfish

The guitarfish are a family, Rhinobatidae, of rays.

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Gulf of Guinea

The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean between Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent.

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Guyana

Guyana (pronounced or), officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a sovereign state on the northern mainland of South America.

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Haemulidae

Haemulidae is a family of fishes in the order Perciformes known commonly as grunts.

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Haiti

Haiti (Haïti; Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea.

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Halfbeak

The halfbeaks (family Hemiramphidae) are a geographically widespread and numerically abundant family of epipelagic fish inhabiting warm waters around the world.

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Hammerhead shark

The hammerhead sharks are a group of sharks in the family Sphyrnidae, so named for the unusual and distinctive structure of their heads, which are flattened and laterally extended into a "hammer" shape called a cephalofoil.

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Hernando de Soto

Hernando de Soto (1495 – May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first Spanish and European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most likely Arkansas).

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Herpetology

Herpetology (from Greek "herpein" meaning "to creep") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras).

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Herring smelt

The herring smelts or argentines are a family, Argentinidae, of marine smelts.

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Historical archaeology

Historical archaeology is a form of archaeology dealing with places, things, and issues from the past or present when written records and oral traditions can inform and contextualize cultural material.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Holocentridae

Holocentridae is a family of ray-finned fish, belonging to the order Beryciformes with the members of the subfamily Holocentrinae typically known as squirrelfish, while the members of Myripristinae typically are known as soldierfish.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Houndshark

Houndsharks, the Triakidae, are a family of ground sharks, consisting of about 40 species in nine genera.

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Hydrology

Hydrology is the scientific study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets, including the water cycle, water resources and environmental watershed sustainability.

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Ichthyology

Ichthyology (from Greek: ἰχθύς, ikhthys, "fish"; and λόγος, logos, "study"), also known as fish science, is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish.

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Ictaluridae

The Ictaluridae, sometimes called ictalurids, are a family of catfish native to North America, where they are important food fish and sometimes as a sport fish.

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Isla de Providencia

Isla de Providencia or Old Providence is a mountainous Caribbean island part of the Colombian department of Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina and the municipality of Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands, lying midway between Costa Rica and Jamaica.

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Ivory-billed woodpecker

The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) is one of the largest woodpeckers in the world, at roughly long and in wingspan.

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Jaguar

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a wild cat species and the only extant member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is an order of insects that includes butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans).

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Lesser Antilles

The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lutjanidae

Snappers are a family of perciform fish, Lutjanidae, mainly marine, but with some members inhabiting estuaries, feeding in fresh water.

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Macrouridae

Macroudidae is a family of deep sea fish, a diverse and ecologically important group, which are part of the order of cod-like fish, the Gadiformes.

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Madagascar

Madagascar (Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.

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Malacology

Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods.

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Mammalogy

In zoology, mammalogy is the study of mammals – a class of vertebrates with characteristics such as homeothermic metabolism, fur, four-chambered hearts, and complex nervous systems.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Marie-Galante

Marie-Galante is an island of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea located south of Guadeloupe and north of Dominica.

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Marineland of Florida

Marineland of Florida (usually just called Marineland), one of Florida's first marine mammal parks, is billed as "the world's first oceanarium".

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Martinique

Martinique is an insular region of France located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of and a population of 385,551 inhabitants as of January 2013.

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Megalodon

Megalodon (Carcharocles megalodon), meaning "big tooth", is an extinct species of shark that lived approximately 23 to 2.6 million years ago (mya), during the Early Miocene to the end of the Pliocene.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Miccosukee

The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida is a federally recognized Native American tribe in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Missouri

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.

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Mojarra

The mojarras are a family, Gerreidae, of fish in the order Perciformes.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.

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Monarch butterfly

The monarch butterfly or simply monarch (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae) in the family Nymphalidae.

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Moray eel

Moray eels, or Muraenidae, are a cosmopolitan family of eels.

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Mullet (fish)

The mullets or grey mullets are a family (Mugilidae) of ray-finned fish found worldwide in coastal temperate and tropical waters, and some species in fresh water.

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National Endowment for the Humanities

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.

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National Marine Fisheries Service

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is a United States federal agency, responsible for the stewardship of national marine resources.

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National Museum of Natural History

The National Museum of Natural History is a natural-history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States.

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Natural History Museum, London

The Natural History Museum in London is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.

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Needlefish

Needlefish (family Belonidae) or long toms are piscivorous fishes primarily associated with very shallow marine habitats or the surface of the open sea.

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Neotropical realm

The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.

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Northern crested caracara

The northern crested caracara (Caracara cheriway), also called the northern caracara and crested caracara, is a bird of prey in the family Falconidae.

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Northern lampreys

The northern lampreys (Petromyzontidae) are a family of lampreys.

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Oceania

Oceania is a geographic region comprising Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and Australasia.

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Ogcocephalidae

Ogcocephalidae is a family of anglerfish specifically adapted for a benthic lifestyle of crawling about on the seafloor.

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Old World silverside

The Old World silversides are a family, Atherinidae, of fish in the order Atheriniformes.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Ophichthidae

Ophichthidae is a family of fish in the order Anguilliformes, commonly known as the snake eels.

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Ophidiiformes

Ophidiiformes is an order of ray-finned fish that includes the cusk-eels (family Ophidiidae), pearlfishes (family Carapidae), brotulas (family Bythitidae), and others.

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Opistognathidae

Opistognathidae, the jawfishes, are a family of fishes classified within the order Perciformes, suborder Percoidei.

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Orange Lake (Florida)

Orange Lake is in Alachua County, Florida, about ten miles south of Hawthorne.

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Ornithology

Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds.

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Osprey

The osprey or more specifically the western osprey (Pandion haliaetus) — also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk — is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range.

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Osteology

Osteology is the scientific study of bones, practiced by osteologists.

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Ostraciidae

Ostraciidae is a family of squared, bony fish belonging to the order Tetraodontiformes, closely related to the pufferfishes and filefishes.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Paleobotany

Paleobotany, also spelled as palaeobotany (from the Greek words paleon.

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Paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Palynology

Palynology is the "study of dust" (from palunō, "strew, sprinkle" and -logy) or "particles that are strewn".

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Panama City

Panama City (Ciudad de Panamá) is the capital and largest city of Panama.

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Paralichthyidae

Large-tooth flounders or sand flounders are a family, Paralichthyidae, of flounders.

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Paratype

In zoology and botany, a paratype is a specimen of an organism that helps define what the scientific name of a species and other taxon actually represents, but it is not the holotype (and in botany is also neither an isotype nor a syntype).

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Parrotfish

Parrotfishes are a group of marine species found in relatively shallow tropical and subtropical oceans around the world.

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Pascagoula, Mississippi

Pascagoula is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States.

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Passenger pigeon

The passenger pigeon or wild pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is an extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to North America.

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Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park

Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park is a Florida State Park, encompassing a savanna in Micanopy, Florida, south of Gainesville.

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Pensacola, Florida

Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle, approximately from the border with Alabama, and the county seat of Escambia County, in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Percidae

The Percidae are a family of perciform fish found in fresh and brackish waters of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Pitcher plant

Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants which have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.

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Poeciliidae

The Poeciliidae are a family of freshwater fishes of the order Cyprinodontiformes, the tooth-carps, and include well-known live-bearing aquarium fish, such as the guppy, molly, platy, and swordtail.

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Pomacanthidae

Marine angelfish are perciform fish of the family Pomacanthidae.

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Pomacentridae

Pomacentridae is a family of perciform fish, comprising the damselfishes and clownfishes.

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Priacanthidae

The Priacanthidae, the bigeyes, are a family of 18 species of marine fishes.

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

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Pupa

A pupa (pūpa, "doll"; plural: pūpae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages.

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Pygmy sunfish

Elassoma is a genus of freshwater fish, the only member of family Elassomatidae and suborder Elassomatoidei of order Perciformes.

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Red-shouldered hawk

The red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) is a medium-sized hawk.

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Requiem shark

Requiem sharks are sharks of the family Carcharhinidae in the order Carcharhiniformes, containing migratory, live-bearing sharks of warm seas (sometimes of brackish or fresh water) such as the spinner shark, the blacknose shark, the blacktip shark, the grey reef shark, and the blacktip reef shark.

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Rhinoceros

A rhinoceros, commonly abbreviated to rhino, is one of any five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae, as well as any of the numerous extinct species.

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Ripley P. Bullen

Ripley Pierce Bullen (1902–1976) was Curator Emeritus at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida, where he was the Department Chair of Social Sciences for a period of seventeen years (1956–1973).

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Safety Harbor culture

The Safety Harbor culture was an archaeological culture practiced by Native Americans living on the central Gulf coast of the Florida peninsula, from about 900 CE until after 1700.

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Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia (Sainte-Lucie) is a sovereign island country in the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean.

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Saint Martin

Saint Martin (Saint-Martin; Sint Maarten) is an island in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately east of Puerto Rico.

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a sovereign state in the Lesser Antilles island arc, in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lies in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean.

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Salmonidae

Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish, the only living family currently placed in the order Salmoniformes.

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Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art

The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art is an art museum at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

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San Buenaventura de Potano

San Buenaventura de Potano was a Spanish mission near Orange Lake in southern Alachua County or northern Marion County, Florida, located on the site where the town of Potano had been located when it was visited by Hernando de Soto in 1539.

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Sand stargazer

Sand stargazers are blennioids; perciform marine fish of the family Dactyloscopidae.

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Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota is a city in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Sciaenidae

The Sciaenidae are a family of fish commonly called drums or croakers in reference to the repetitive throbbing or drumming sounds they make.

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Scombridae

The Scombridae family of the mackerels, tunas, and bonitos includes many of the most important and familiar food fishes.

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Scorpaenidae

Scorpaenidae (also known as the scorpionfish) are a family of mostly marine fish that includes many of the world's most venomous species.

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Sea chub

The sea chubs are a family, Kyphosidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans usually close to shore in marine waters.

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Sea turtle

Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea), sometimes called marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines.

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Seminole

The Seminole are a Native American people originally from Florida.

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Serranidae

The Serranidae are a large family of fishes belonging to the order Perciformes.

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Shark

Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.

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Skate (fish)

Skates are cartilaginous fish belonging to the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea of rays.

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Soleidae

The true soles are a family, Soleidae, of flatfishes.

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Sombrero, Anguilla

Sombrero, also known as Hat Island, is part of the British overseas territory of Anguilla and is the northernmost island of the Lesser Antilles.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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South Florida

South Florida is a region of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southernmost part of the state.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.

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Sparidae

The Sparidae are a family of fish in the order Perciformes, commonly called sea breams and porgies.

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Squalidae

The Squalidae, also called dogfish sharks or spiny dogfishes, are a family of sharks in the order Squaliformes.

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Stomiiformes

Stomiiformes is an order of deep-sea ray-finned fishes of very diverse morphology.

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Stromateidae

The family Stromateidae of butterfish contains 15 species of fish in three genera.

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Sue (dinosaur)

Sue is the nickname given to FMNH PR 2081, which is the largest, most extensive and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found at over 90% recovered by bulk.

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Sumter County, Florida

Sumter County is a county located in the state of Florida, United States.

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Suriname

Suriname (also spelled Surinam), officially known as the Republic of Suriname (Republiek Suriname), is a sovereign state on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America.

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Syngnathidae

The Syngnathidae is a family of fish which includes the seahorses, the pipefishes, the pipehorses, and the leafy, ruby, and weedy seadragons.

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Synodontidae

Synodontidae or lizardfishes(or typical lizardfish to distinguish them from the Bathysauridae and Pseudotrichonotidae) are benthic (bottom-dwelling) marine and estuarine bony fishes that comprise the aulopiform fish family, a diverse order of marine ray-finned fish consisting of some 15 extant and several prehistoric families.

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Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee is the capital of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Tetraodontidae

The Tetraodontidae are a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the order Tetraodontiformes.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago.

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Tinamou

Tinamous form an order of birds (Tinamiformes), comprising a single family (Tinamidae) with two distinct subfamilies, containing 47 species found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

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Titanis

Titanis walleri is a large extinct flightless carnivorous bird of the family Phorusrhacidae, endemic to North America from the Hempillian to the late Blancan stage of the Pliocene living 4.9—1.8 Ma, and died out during the Gelasian Age of the earliest Pleistocene, existing approximately.

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Tobago

Tobago is an autonomous island within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Tonguefish

Tonguefishes are flatfishes in the family Cynoglossidae.

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Torpedinidae

The family Torpedinidae contains 22 species of electric rays or torpedoes, flat cartilaginous fishes that produce electricity as a defense and feeding mechanism.

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Triggerfish

Triggerfishes are about 40 species of often brightly colored fish of the family Balistidae.

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Triglidae

The Triglidae, commonly known as sea robins or gurnard, are a family of bottom-feeding scorpaeniform fish.

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Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Trogon

The trogons and quetzals are birds in the order Trogoniformes which contains only one family, the Trogonidae.

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Turks and Caicos Islands

The Turks and Caicos Islands (and), or TCI for short, are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies.

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Tyrannosaurus

Tyrannosaurus is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur.

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United States Fish and Wildlife Service

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or FWS) is an agency of the federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats.

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United States Virgin Islands

The United States Virgin Islands (USVI; also called the American Virgin Islands), officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, is a group of islands in the Caribbean that is an insular area of the United States located east of Puerto Rico.

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UnitedHealth Group

UnitedHealth Group Inc. is an American for-profit managed health care company based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

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University of Florida

The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university on a campus in Gainesville, Florida.

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University of Miami

The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM, U of M, or The U) is a private, nonsectarian research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).

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Virgin Islands

The Virgin Islands are the western island group of the Leeward Islands, which are the northern part of the Lesser Antilles, and form the border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Walter Auffenberg

Walter Auffenberg (–) was an American biologist who spent almost 40 years in field research, studying reptile and amphibian paleontology and the systematics and biology of numerous reptile species, including alligators and Komodo dragons.

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Weeden Island culture

The Weeden Island Cultures are a group of related archaeological cultures that existed during the Late Woodland period of the North American Southeast.

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West Indies

The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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Whiptail stingray

The whiptail stingrays are a family, the Dasyatidae, of rays in the order Myliobatiformes.

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William W. McGuire

William "Bill" McGuire, M.D. (born 1948) is an American pulmonologist, lepidopterist, philanthropist, and healthcare executive, best known for his tenure as chairman and chief executive officer of UnitedHealth Group from 1991 until his resignation in 2006.

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Withlacoochee River (Florida)

The Withlacoochee River (or Crooked River) originates in central Florida's Green Swamp, east of Polk City.

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Woodpecker

Woodpeckers are part of the family Picidae, a group of near-passerine birds that also consist of piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers.

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Wrasse

The wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly colored.

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Wren

The wrens are mostly small, brownish passerine birds in the mainly New World family Troglodytidae.

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Zoology

Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Museum_of_Natural_History

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