Author: (Goode & Bean, 1880)
FBname: Gulf toadfish
Comments: Commonly found in seagrass beds and rocky cuts in coastal bays and lagoons, and in shallows along open coast.  In western coast of Florida, adults spawn in February and March (Ref. 26938).  Nesting males produce grunt calls called the boatwhistle as advertisement of competition among males and to attract females (Ref. 45338).  Neither opercular nor dorsal gland is venomous (Ref. 57406).