floridensis

Welcome to Floridensis

All photographs on Floridensis were composed and processed by Janson Jones, a Volusia county native raised in the tangles of the Tomoka basin and Ormond Beach. Though most posts will focus on Floridian wildlife, ecology, and environments, please note that Floridensis will also share perspectives from across the North American continent -- all the way up and west to Alaska. All photographed organisms were wild and non-captive unless explicitly noted otherwise. This iteration of Floridensis was born on 29 May 2019. If this version of Floridensis has a rhetorical motto, it's this: Less talk; more images.

The Tomoka Basin
& Ormond Beach

SPECIES INDEX

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FUNGI & LICHENS

Polyporales (Shelf Fungi)
White-pored chicken of the woods

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PLANTAE

Arecales (Palms)
Cabbage palmetto

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ARTHROPODS

Crustaceans
Atlantic sand fiddler crab

Arachnids
Magnolia jumping spider
Green lynx spider
Rabid wolf spider

Centipedes
Florida Keys centipede

Millipedes
North American millipede

Mantids
Grizzled mantis

Hemiptera True Bugs
Giant leaf-footed bug

Coleoptera Beetles
Harlequin flower beetle

Moths & Butterflies
Red-bordered emerald moth

Dragonflies & Allies
Great blue skimmer

Grasshoppers & Allies
Eastern lubber grasshopper
American bird grasshopper
Rusty bird grasshopper

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FISH

Chondrichthyes
Cownose ray

Osteichthyes
Northern puffer

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AMPHIBIANS

Frogs & Toads
Southern cricket frog
Oak toad
Southern toad
Greenhouse frog
Eastern narrowmouth toad
Pine woods treefrog
Squirrel treefrog
Barking treefrog
Cope's gray treefrog
Green treefrog
Southern leopard frog
American bullfrog
Green frog
Pig frog
Cuban treefrog
Spring peeper
Eastern spadefoot toad

Amphiumas
Two-toed amphiuma

Salamanders
Dwarf salamander

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REPTILES

Turtles
Florida softshell turtle
Spiny softshell turtle
Common snapping turtle
Gopher tortoise
Striped mud turtle
Loggerhead musk turtle
Eastern mud turtle
Common box turtle
Florida red-bellied cooter
Common slider

Lizards
African redhead agama
Six-lined racerunner
Carolina green anole
Puerto Rican crested anole
Hispaniolan green anole
Hispaniolan stout anole
Bark anole
Cuban knight anole
Jamaican giant anole
Cuban brown anole
Brown basilisk
Eastern collared lizard
Black spiny-tailed iguana
Indo-Pacific gecko
Tropical house gecko
Mediterranean gecko
Green iguana
Northern curly-tailed lizard
Eastern glass lizard
Common five-lined skink
Southeastern five-lined skink
Broadhead skink
Plateau fence lizard
Eastern fence lizard
Florida scrub lizard
Little brown skink
Common side-blotched lizard

Snakes
Florida cottonmouth
Florida scarlet snake
Black racer snake
Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
Timber rattlesnake
Ringneck snake
Mud snake
Brahminy blindsnake
Scarlet kingnsnake
Eastern kingsnake
Striped swamp snake
Eastern coachwhip
Eastern coral snake
Salt marsh watersnake
Plainbelly watersnake
Banded watersnake
Florida green watersnake
Diamondback watersnake
Northern watersnake
Brown watersnake
Rough green snake
Eastern "Yellow" rat snake
Eastern "Gray" rat snake
Red "Corn" rat snake
Burmese python
Ball python
Pine woods littersnake
Desert patchnose snake
Pigmy rattlesnake
Florida brown snake
Eastern garter snake
Peninsula ribbon snake

Crocodilians
American alligator
Spectacled caiman
American crocodile

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BIRDS

Pelecaniformes
Great blue heron
Snowy egret
Tricolored heron
American white ibis

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MAMMALS

Marsupialia
Virginia opossum

Carnivora
Raccoon

Primates
Human

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