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    • Sawfish rostrum
    • Sawfish rosrum
    • Largetooth Sawfish rostrum
    • Sawfish rostrum

    Sawfish

    The five species of sawfishes are globally endangered in part because their rostra (snouts) are prized […]

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    • Southeastern beach mice
    • Southeastern beach mice
    • Southeastern beach mice
    • Southeastern beach mice
    • Southeastern beach mice
    • Southeastern beach mice
    • Southeastern beach mice
    • Southeastern beach mice

    Southeastern Beach Mice

    Florida’s Beach Mouse populations are specialized to certain climatic conditions and coastal habitats unique to the […]

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    • Native and Invasive Snails
    • Giant African Snails (Lissachatina fulica)
    • Rosy Wolf Snail (Euglandina rosea)
    • Hawaiian Snails (Partulina virgulata)
    • Hawaiian Snails (Partulina virgulata)

    Native and Invasive Land Snails

    Predators, like Florida’s Rosy Wolf Snail, were introduced to many Pacific islands to control invasive snails […]

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    • Rusty Mud Salamander
    • Rusty Mud Salamander
    • Rusty Mud Salamanders

    Rusty Mud Salamander

    These salamanders were found in a stream on UF’s campus, and used to describe a new […]

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    • Southern Dusky Salamander
    • Southern Dusky Salamander
    • Southern Dusky Salamander

    Southern Dusky Salamander

    The Dusky Salamander was once common in the southeastern United States. In recent years, UF researchers […]

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    • Florida Kingsnake
    • Florida Kingsnake
    • Florida Kingsnake
    • Florida Kingsnake

    Florida Kingsnake

    Native snakes play an important role as natural predators in many of Florida’s ecosystems. Kingsnakes were […]

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    • Gulf Coast Indigo Snake
    • Gulf Coast Indigo Snake

    Gulf Coast Indigo Snake

    Museum scientists recently described the Gulf Coast Indigo Snake as a separate species from the similar […]

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    • Florida jujube
    • Florida jujube
    • Florida jujube holotype
    • Florida jujube

    Florida Jujube

    Scientists thought Florida Jujube was extinct when it was described from a single Florida Museum specimen […]

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    • Florida false rosemary
    • Florida false rosemary
    • Florida false rosemary
    • Florida false rosemary

    Florida False Rosemary

    A species unknown to science until the 1990s, Florida False Rosemary occurs in small populations in […]

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    • Goliath Grouper (Taxidermy)
    • Goliath Grouper (Taxidermy)
    • Goliath Grouper
    • Goliath Grouper
    • Goliath Grouper

    Goliath Grouper

    Weighing as much as 800 pounds and growing up to 8 feet, Goliath Grouper are vulnerable […]

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