Florida Seashore Wildlife

Another app in our Florida Wildlife series...

This app shows the 133 most common species found on Florida seashores. For each species there are two or three high-resolution pictures, a brief description, and a link to view the corresponding Wikipedia pages within the application window. All descriptive information is in English, the animal names are also shown in scientific (Latin) denomination and in German.

The app features a modern, intuitive interface with easy navigation and search facilities for finding an animal by its name or searching in the full text for features and characteristics.

If you're interested in Florida's wildlife, don't miss this app which is equally suitable for iPhone and iPad.

These species are shown and described in this app:

Seashore Plants:
• Aloe Yucca
• Cabbage Palm
• Coconut Palm
• Eelgrass
• Florida Royal Palm
• Glasswort
• Red Mangrove
• Saw Palmetto
• Sea Grape
• Sea Oats
• Southern Waxmyrtle
• Turtle Grass

Seastars, Anemones and similar:
• Atlantic Purple Sea Urchin
• Common Sea Star
• Cushion Star
• Keyhole Urchin
• Labyrinthine Brain Coral
• Long-spined Sea Urchin
• Moon Jellyfish
• Portuguese Man-of-War
• Sail Jellyfish
• Sea Nettle
• Staghorn Coral

Beach Drift:
• Sand Dollar Skeleton
• Sea Urchin Skeleton
• Skate Egg Case

Mollusks:
• Atlantic Slipper Snail
• Calico Scallop
• Common Baby's Ear
• Common Eastern Dog Whelk
• Common Jingle Shell
• Common Purple Sea Snail
• Eastern Oyster
• Florida Coquina
• Florida Horse Conch
• Florida Lace Murex
• Giant Atlantic Cockle
• Hooked Mussel
• Lettered Olive
• Lightning Whelk
• Queen Helmet
• Scotch Bonnet
• Shark Eye
• Sunray Venus Clam
• Thick-lipped Oyster Drill
• Wentletrap

Crustaceans:
• Acorn Barnacle
• Beach Flea
• Blue Crab
• Fiddler Crab
• Ghost Crab
• Great Land Crab
• Hermit Crab
• Horseshoe Crab
• Portly Spider Crab

Nearshore Fishes:
• Bluefish
• Bluehead
• Clearnose Skate
• Florida Pompano
• Gulf Flounder
• Gulf Pipefish
• Queen Triggerfish
• Red Drum
• Sergeant Major
• Sheepshead
• Snook
• Striped Anchovy
• Striped Bass
• Weakfish

Birds:
• American Avocet
• American Coot
• American Oystercatcher
• American White Pelican
• American Wigeon
• Anhinga
• Belted Kingfisher
• Black Skimmer
• Black-bellied Plover
• Black-crowned Night-Heron
• Black-necked Stilt
• Blue-winged Teal
• Brown Pelican
• Bufflehead
• Canada Goose
• Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow
• Cattle Egret
• Common Moorhen
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Dunlin
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Green Heron
• Green-winged Teal
• Herring Gull
• Killdeer
• Laughing Gull
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Limpkin
• Little Blue Heron
• Long-billed Curlew
• Magnificent Frigatebird
• Marbled Godwit
• Muscovy Duck
• Northern Shoveler
• Osprey
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Red Knot
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Reddish Egret
• Ring-billed Gull
• Ring-necked Duck
• Roseate Spoonbill
• Royal Tern
• Ruddy Duck
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Sanderling
• Semipalmated Plover
• Snowy Egret
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Tricolored Heron
• Western Sandpiper
• White Ibis
• Willet
• Wilson's Snipe
• Wood Stork
• Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Reptiles:
• American Alligator
• American Crocodile
• Loggerhead

Marine Mammals:
• Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin
• Manatee