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The web site is expandable and will constantly be updated as new species, photographs, and other content become available. |
| Date | What's New |
| May 17, 2013 | Added new invertebrate, the pleated sea squirt. Changed the common name of the sea squirt, M. manhattensis, to sea grape. |
| May 08, 2013 | Changed the common name stippled spoon-nose eel to snapper eel. |
| April 26, 2013 | Added 2 new corals: hidden cup coral and diffuse ivory bush coral. Added 1 new red algae, Grateloupia finicina. Added "pinnate" to vegetation glossary. Added more descriptions to hard coral families. Added Fistulariidae to the fish family key. |
| April 19, 2013 | Added 2 new fishes: the violet goby and the red cornetfish. Added new fish family, Fistulariidae. Added a few photos to the green goby. |
| April 01, 2013 | Added new species, the mushroom jellyfish. Added photos to the nudibranch, the Brazilian armina. |
| March 21, 2013 | Added glossary terms for coral skeletons: corallum, corallite, calyx, theca, septum, coenosteum, costa, columella. |
| March 19, 2013 | Add a new species: the northern cup coral with new family, Rhizangiidae (hard corals). Added photos to Atlantic paper mussel, fragile barnacle, interrupted periwinkle, and the smooth mud crab. |
| March 11, 2013 | Added 2 new mollusks: the miniature moonsnail and the semismooth wentletrap. |
| February 26, 2013 | Added 1 bivalve: the Florida prickly cockle; added 2 vegetations: the black mangrove and the largeleaf pennywort. |
| February 25, 2013 | Added a new fish, the lesser electric ray; added 2 new invertebrates: the warty anemone and the common clam worm; added photos to the freckled blenny, the lightning whelk, the giant eastern murex, the quahogs, and the American alligator. |
| January 21, 2013 | Changed 2 fish families: Myliobatidae to Rhinopteridae for cownose rays, Atherinidae to Atherinopsidae for silversides; added whale shark family (Rhincodontidae) to family key. |
| January 09, 2013 | Added new species: whale shark, bottlenose dolphin, American alligator, West Indian manatee. Added underwater photos from TPWD Artificial Reef Marine Speci |
| December 03, 2012 | Added new species: the concentric nut clam, Nuculana concentrica. Added photos to glossary terms tympanum, swim bladder, jugostegalia, oblique and rhinophore. |
| November 14, 2012 | Added new species: the fine-ribbed auger (gastropod). Added photos to the roundel skate, whitespotted soapfish, dusky shark, sergestid shrimp and brown banded hermit crab. |
| November 07, 2012 | Changed the identity of the southern stingray (Dasyatis americana) to the bluntnose stingray (D. say). Added the cannonball jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris). |
| November 02, 2012 | Added photos to the dusky shark and fat snook. |
| October 03, 2012 | Added new species: the bar jack (fishes), tarpon (fishes), the cinnamon river shrimp, and manatee grass (seagrasses). Also added photos to the yellow jack page. |
| September 20, 2012 | Added a new species: the sooty eel. Corrected the ID of the of the false daisy (previously ID'ed as the Corpus Christi fleabane). |
| September 14, 2012 | Added 1 new fish species: ragged goby. Added 3 new mollusks: tiger lucine, Tollin's wentletrap, crested oyster. |
| August 31, 2012 | Added thumbnail pages for all organisms. |
| August 30, 2012 | Added the fish thumbnail page. Pages for other organisms coming soon. |
| August 17, 2012 | Added more photos to ocellated flounder, gulf toadfish, lined seahorse, bigeye searobin, striped burrfish, alligator and spotted gar. Added new plant, the saltmarsh false foxglove. |
| August 07, 2012 | Added a link to TPWD's Shark Identification and Regulations pamphlet (PDF) to the shark species (under "Bag/size limits"). |