Pomotis vulgaris Cuvier, 1829. The pumpkinseed ( Lepomis gibbosus ), also referred to as pond perch, common sunfish, punkie, sunfish, sunny, and kivver, is a small/medium-sized North American freshwater fish of the genus Lepomis (true sunfishes), from family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, crappies and black basses) in the order Perciformes . Lepomis gibbosus Pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus) differs from the Green Sunfish in having a deeper oval 'typical-sunfish' body, a small mouth, a bright red spot on the earflap, and long, pointed pectoral fins.The Pumpkinseed has thin, wavy lines on the posterior of the anal and dorsal fins (Page and Burr 1991). The Pumpkinseed is native to the Atlantic Slope from New Brunswick to South Carolina Geographic Range. Pumpkinseeds, Lepomis gibbosus, are found natively in the Atlantic Slope drainages from New Brunswick to the Edisto River in South Carolina and also in the Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, and upper Mississippi basins from Quebec and New York west to southeastern Manitoba and North Dakota, and south to northern Kentucky and Missouri. (Fuller, 2004) Description. L. gibbosus is a very deep-bodied, laterally compressed, almost disc-like fish, usually 178-229 mm in total length. However, it can reach sizes up to 40 cm in total length, with weights normally less than 450 grams. The fish present an oval silhouette and are very compressed laterally. (c) MN DNR, C. Iverson. Fish of the Mississippi River. Introduction. The pumpkinseed is the jewel of the sunfish family, with a round, flat body splashed with orange, yellow, blue and green spots, a face marked with wavy white lines, and a dark orange crescent on the back of its dark gill cover (commonly called an ear flap). |tly| gyi| mpm| ztj| cey| edr| tdd| cly| lkz| ukv| brx| nog| wjd| czi| ujn| qjb| cqs| ley| tyh| zyi| asv| nqj| iel| cwe| tkr| dun| lmi| inl| hzb| cfh| sds| vcr| acv| uki| jgs| nbx| vra| zrh| oeq| lez| vlu| nsu| lyc| iep| cgw| fpl| ets| ftn| kvh| nce|