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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. A species index is provided below; more general categorical links are provided in the top-banner menu. This iteration of Floridensis was born on 29 May 2019.

The TOMOKA & BULOW Circuit: Photographs from the Ormond Beach area through and around the Tomoka Basin. Includes Tomoka, Bulow Creek, North Peninsula, and Bulow Plantation Ruins State Parks.


ANOLIS Lizards: Photographs of all Anolis lizards featured on Floridensis to date. This includes native and non-native species alike, all photographed in the wild.


NERODIA Watersnakes: Photographs of all non-venomous Nerodia watersnakes featured on Floridensis to date. Includes species photographed in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Oklahoma.


Salt Marshes & Coastal Habitats. Photographs taken on various kayak sojourns through Florida's coastal, salt marsh, and estuarine habitats.


FLORIDA by KAYAK:
Freshwater Habitats: Coming Soon.

HETEROKONTS
• Sargassum

HYPOCREALES (Fungi)
• Ophiocordyceps parasitic fungi

POLYPORALES (Shelf Fungi)
• White-pored chicken of the woods

ARECALES (Palms)
• Cabbage palmetto

LAMIALES
• Black mangrove

MALPIGHIALES
• Red mangrove

POALES (Grasses)
• Saltmarsh cord grass
• Sea oates

HYDROZOA
• Blue button

SCYPHOZOA (True Jellyfish)
• Cannonball jellyfish

BIVALVE MOLLUSKS
• Eastern oyster

GASTROPOD MOLLUSKS
• Lettered olive
• Grey Atlantic auger
• American crown conch
• Shark eye sea snail
• Eastern whitelip snail
• Sargassum nudibranch
• Cuban brown snail

BARNACLES
• Coming Soon

SHRIMP & CRAYFISH
• Mitten crayfish
• Slender sargassum shrimp
• Brown grass shrimp
• Arrow shrimp

CRABS
• Mangrove tree crab
• Speckled swimming crab
• Atlantic blue crab
• Blue land crab
• Thinstripe hermit crab
• Caribbean land hermit crab
• Atlantic mole crab
• Mangrove root crab
• Thin-shelled rock crab
• Atlantic sand fiddler crab
• Atlantic mangrove fiddler crab
• Portly spider crab
• Atlantic ghost crab
• Mottled shore crab
• Atlantic mud crab
• Mottled purse crab
• Green porcelain crab
• Tidal spray crab
• Sargassum swimming crab

DADDY LONGLEGS
• Aldrichi harvestman

SPIDERS
• Twinflagged jumping spider
• Yellow garden spider
• Six-spotted fishing spider
• Spinybacked orbweaver
• Giant crab spider (Huntsman)
• Field wolf spider
• Magnolia jumping spider
• Golden jumping spider
• Green lynx spider
• Rabid wolf spider

CENTIPEDES
• Florida Keys centipede

MILLIPEDES
• North American millipede

MANTIDS
• Grizzled mantis

ANTS, BEES, WASPS, Etc
• Neotropical paper wasp

CICADAS
• N. dusk-singing cicada
• Resonant cicada
• Hieroglyphic cicada
• Lyric cicada
• Similar dog-day cicada

TRUE BUGS (Non-Cicada)
• Giant leaf-footed bug

BEETLES
• Eastern eyed click beetle
• Harlequin flower beetle
• Giant stag beetle

MOTHS
• Eastern grass tubeworm
• Luna moth
• Wittfeld's forester
• Spiny oakworm moth
• Pink-striped oakworm moth
• Polyphemus moth
• Spotted apatelodes moth
• Black witch moth
• Ailanthus webworm moth
• Io moth
• Pink-shaded fern moth
• Laugher moth
• Angle-winged emerald moth
• Soybean looper moth
• Scarlet-bodied wasp moth
• Manto tussock moth
• Spotted oleander moth
• White furcula moth
• Banded tussock moth
• Harris's three-spot moth
• Esther moth
• Southern flannel moth
• Red-bordered emerald moth
• Skiff moth
• Echo moth
• Agreeable tiger moth
• Sweetpotato armyworm
• Black-dotted spragueia moth

BUTTERFLIES
• Great southern white
• Polydamas swallowtail
• Queen butterfly
• Eastern giant swallowtail
• Eastern tiger swallowtail
• Palamedes swallowtail

DRAGONFLIES etc
• Common green darner
• Regal darner
• Scarlet skimmer
• Swamp darner
• Eastern pondhawk
• Seaside dragonlet
• Rambur's forktail
• Citrine forktail
• Lilypad forktail
• Bar-winged skimmer
• Slaty skimmer
• Great blue skimmer
• Blue dasher

KATYDIDS
• Florida oblong-winged katydid
• American shieldback

GRASSHOPPERS
• Long-headed toothpick
• Short-winged green grasshopper
• Eastern lubber grasshopper
• American bird grasshopper
• Mischievous bird grasshopper
• Rusty bird grasshopper

SHARKS & RAYS
• Cownose ray

BONY FISH
• Sargassum fish
• Atlantic tripletail
• Northern puffer

FROGS & TOADS
• Dwarf american toad
• Oak toad
• Southern toad
• Eastern spadefoot
• Greenhouse frog
• Eastern narrowmouth toad
• Southern cricket frog
• Pine woods treefrog
• Squirrel treefrog
• Barking treefrog
• Cope's gray treefrog
• Green treefrog
• Cuban treefrog
• Spring peeper
• Plains leopard frog
• Bronze frog
• Pickerel frog
• Southern leopard frog
• American bullfrog
• Pig frog
• Wood frog

AMPHIUMAS
• Two-toed amphiuma

SALAMANDERS
• Dwarf salamander

T U R T L E S

Trionychidae Softshells
• Florida softshell turtle
• Spiny softshell turtle

Chelydridae Snappers
• Common snapping turtle

Testudinidae Tortoises
• Gopher tortoise

Kinosternidae Turtles
• Striped mud turtle
• Eastern mud turtle
• Loggerhead musk turtle
• Common musk turtle

Emydidae Turtles
• Florida red-bellied cooter
• Eastern box turtle
• Ornate box turtle
• Common slider

L I Z A R D S

Anoles
• Carolina green anole
• Puerto Rican crested anole
• Hispaniolan green anole
• Hispaniolan stout anole
• Bark anole
• Cuban knight anole
• Jamaican giant anole
• Cuban brown anole

Agamas
• African redhead agama

Whiptails & Racerunners
• Six-lined racerunner
• Western whiptail

Casquehead Lizards
• Brown basilisk

Collared Lizards
• Eastern collared lizard

Iguanas
• Black spiny-tailed iguana
• Green iguana

Curly-tailed Lizards
• Northern curly-tailed lizard

Phrynosomatidae Lizards
• Plateau fence lizard
• Eastern fence lizard
• Florida scrub lizard
• Ornate tree lizard
• Common side-blotched lizard

Legless Lizards
• Eastern glass lizard

Geckos
• Indo-Pacific gecko
• Tropical house gecko
• Mediterranean gecko

Skinks
• Southeastern five-lined skink
• Broadhead skink
• Little brown skink

S N A K E S

Natricinae Colubrids
• Salt marsh watersnake
• Salt marsh x Banded watersnake
• Plainbelly watersnake
• Banded watersnake
• Florida green watersnake
• Diamondback watersnake
• Northern watersnake
• Brown watersnake
• Rough earth snake
• Striped swamp snake
• Queen snake
• Florida brown snake
• Eastern garter snake
• Peninsula ribbon snake

Colubrinae Colubrids
• Florida scarlet snake
• Black racer snake
• Scarlet kingnsnake
• Eastern kingsnake
• Eastern coachwhip
• Rough green snake
• Eastern "Yellow" rat snake
• Eastern "Gray" rat snake
• Eastern "Everglades" rat snake
• Red "Corn" rat snake
• Desert patchnose snake

Dipsadinae Colubrids
• Ringneck snake
• Mud snake
• Pine woods littersnake

Typhlopidae Blind Snakes
• Brahminy blindsnake

Pythons
• Burmese python
• Ball python

Viperidae (Venomous)
• Florida cottonmouth
• Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
• Timber rattlesnake
• Pigmy rattlesnake

Elapidae (Venomous)
• Eastern coral snake

C R O C O D I L I A N S

Alligatoridae
• American alligator
• Spectacled caiman

Crocodylidae
• American crocodile

ACCIPITRIFORMES
• Turkey vulture
• Black vulture
• Osprey

ANSERIFORMES
• Coming Soon

CHARADRIIFORMES
• Brown noddy
• Laughing gull

CICONIIFORMES
• Coming Soon

GALLIFORMES
• Coming Soon

GRUIFORMES
• Sandhill crane
• Purple gallinule

PASSERIFORMES
• Florida scrub jay

PELECANIFORMES
• Roseate spoonbill
• Great egret
• Great blue heron
• Little blue heron
• Reddish egret
• Snowy egret
• Tricolored heron
• American white ibis
• Yellow-crowned night heron
• Black-crowned night heron
• Roseate spoonbill

PHOENICOPTERIFORMES
• American flamingo

PODICIPEDIFORMES
• Pied-billed grebe

STRIGIFORMES
• Coming Soon

SULIFORMES
• Anhinga

MARSUPIALIA
• Virginia opossum

CARNIVORA
• American mink
• Raccoon

PRIMATES
• Human