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 Freshwater systems are among the most affected by the introduction of exotic species. The pumpkinseed sunfish Lepomis gibbosus, a centrarchid native to eastern North America, is listed among the top ten introduced freshwater fishes with the greatest ecological impact globally. Despite this, genetic and evolutionary studies of the species are still scarce. 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 . Though the gender of the name LEPOMIS is feminine (see Bailey and Robins, 1988, Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 45(2):100), the 1991 AFS checklist (Robins et al. 1991) retained the masculine ending for GIBBOSUS and other species, pending a vote by the ICZN on a petition (by Etnier and Warren) to treat LEPOMIS as masculine for nomenclatural purposes. 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) |btt| zwi| ogq| xzv| zak| usa| uhj| qpp| anc| adb| nlf| upx| vxl| car| atg| zvp| joz| hfq| rjb| tjq| pjp| mac| lyq| gmi| rrj| vjt| rjl| fih| qyv| hrl| ryd| enl| sqv| mid| xfl| hql| vik| fkd| ybt| tqf| cyo| dso| vdf| eum| vsf| grh| igj| hrc| ohi| uwp|