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. 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.


Freshwater Habitats: Photographs taken on various kayak sojourns throughout Florida's freshwater habitats.


Tropical Storms & Hurricanes: Photographs and posts covering life beneath and within Florida's tropical storm and hurricane events.

HETEROKONTS
• Sargassum

HYPOCREALES (Fungi)
• Ophiocordyceps parasitic fungi

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

ALISMATALES
• Water lettuce

ARECALES (Palms)
• Cabbage palmetto

COMMELINALES
• Pickerelweed

LAMIALES
• Black mangrove

MALPIGHIALES
• Red mangrove

NYMPHAEALES
• Spatterdock

POALES (Grasses)
• Saltmarsh cord grass
• Sea oates

SALVINIALES
• Water spangles

SOLANALES
• Beach morning glory

HYDROZOA
• Blue button

SCYPHOZOA (True Jellyfish)
• Cannonball jellyfish

BIVALVE MOLLUSKS
• Eastern oyster
• Coquina

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

BARNACLES
• Titan acorn barnacle
• Ribbed barnacle

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

CRABS
• Mangrove tree crab
• Speckled swimming crab
• Flame-streaked box crab
• Atlantic blue crab
• Blue land crab
• Thinstripe hermit crab
• Caribbean land hermit crab
• Atlantic mole crab
• Blackback land 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

HORSESHOE CRABS
• Horseshoe crab

DADDY LONGLEGS
• Aldrichi harvestman

SPIDERS
• Twinflagged jumping spider
• Yellow garden spider
• Okefenokee fishing 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
• Angle-lined prominent moth
• Scarlet-bodied wasp moth
• Manto tussock moth
• Rosy maple moth
• Imperial moth
• Spotted oleander moth
• White furcula moth
• Banded tussock moth
• Harris's three-spot moth
• Esther moth
• Five-spotted hawk moth
• Southern flannel moth
• Live oak metria moth
• Red-bordered emerald moth
• Skiff moth
• Echo moth
• Agreeable tiger moth
• Sweetpotato armyworm
• Black-dotted spragueia moth

BUTTERFLIES
• Gulf fritillary
• 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
• Dragonhunter
• Rambur's forktail
• Citrine forktail
• Lilypad forktail
• Bar-winged skimmer
• Slaty skimmer
• Great blue skimmer
• Royal river cruiser
• Blue dasher
• Common whitetail
• Carolina saddlebags

KATYDIDS
• Florida oblong-winged katydid
• American shieldback
• Robust 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

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

WORMLIZARDS
• Florida worm lizard

LIZARDS
• African redhead agama
• Carolina green anole
• Puerto Rican crested anole
• Hispaniolan green anole
• Hispaniolan stout anole
• Bark anole
• Cuban knight anole
• Jamaican giant anole
• Cuban green anole
• Cuban brown anole
• Six-lined racerunner
• Western whiptail
• 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
• Southeastern five-lined skink
• Broadhead skink
• Plateau fence lizard
• Eastern fence lizard
• Florida scrub lizard
• Little brown skink
• Ornate tree lizard
• Common side-blotched lizard

SNAKES
• Florida cottonmouth
• Florida scarlet snake
• Black racer snake
• Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
• Timber rattlesnake
• Ringneck snake
• Mud snake
• Rough earth snake
• Brahminy blindsnake
• Scarlet kingnsnake
• Eastern kingsnake
• Striped swamp snake
• Eastern coachwhip
• Eastern coral snake
• Salt marsh watersnake
• Salt marsh x Banded 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
• Eastern "Everglades" rat snake
• Red "Corn" rat snake
• Burmese python
• Ball python
• Queen snake
• Pine woods littersnake
• Desert patchnose snake
• Pigmy rattlesnake
• Florida brown snake
• Eastern garter snake
• Peninsula ribbon snake

CROCODILIANS
• American alligator
• Spectacled caiman
• American crocodile

ACCIPITRIFORMES
• Turkey vulture
• Black vulture
• Osprey

ANSERIFORMES
• Coming Soon

CHARADRIIFORMES
• Brown noddy
• Laughing gull
• Black skimmer

CICONIIFORMES
• Wood stork

GALLIFORMES
• Coming Soon

GRUIFORMES
• Sandhill crane
• Purple gallinule

PASSERIFORMES
• Florida scrub jay
• Boat-tailed grackle

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
• American white pelican
• Roseate spoonbill
• Glossy ibis

PHOENICOPTERIFORMES
• American flamingo

PODICIPEDIFORMES
• Pied-billed grebe

STRIGIFORMES
• Barred owl

SULIFORMES
• Anhinga
• Magnificent frigatebird
• Masked booby

ARTIODACTYLA
• Key deer
• Common bottlenose dolphin

MARSUPIALIA
• Virginia opossum

CARNIVORA
• American mink
• Raccoon

PRIMATES
• Human

SIRENIA
• West Indian manatee