Ocean Sunfish Gallery

Ocean sunfish, Mola mola

Ocean sunfish, Mola mola. . Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Massard, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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Shadow bass perched on a rock ledge below the Vortex Spring cave

Shadow bass (Ambloplites ariommus) perched on a rock ledge about 90 feet deep just below the Vortex Spring cave ceiling where air bubbles have surfaced. Shadow Bass is a member of the Centrarchids family or sunfish family and is closely related to the rock bass

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A Largemouth Bass swims amonst Strap-leaf sagittaria on the river bottom

A Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) swims aamongst grass on the river bottom in the crystal clear freshwaters of Rainbow Springs in Dunnellon, Florida. The grass, Sagittaria kurziana, is commonly referred to as Strap-leaf sagittaria. Strap-leaf sagittaria is a submersed plant, unlike most other Sagittaria

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