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sunfish

1. any large plectognath fish of the family Molidae, of temperate and tropical seas, esp Mola mola, which has a large rounded compressed body, long pointed dorsal and anal fins, and a fringelike tail fin
2. any of various small predatory North American freshwater percoid fishes of the family Centrarchidae, typically having a compressed brightly coloured body
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sunfish

[′sən‚fish]
(vertebrate zoology)
Any of several species of marine and freshwater fishes in the families Centrarchidae and Molidae characterized by brilliant metallic skin coloration.
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Carl recalls, "We lent the boys our fly rods, and the boys, who had never held a fishing pole before, each caught a small, but feisty pumpkinseed every time a nymph touched the water.
Other creatures in the park include a number of fish, such as bluegill, pumpkinseed sunfish, goldfish, and brown bullhead catfish.
2012) or Centrarchidae such as pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus (L., 1758) and largemouth bass (Ribeiro & Collares-Pereira 2010).
Variation in resource abundance affects diet and feeding morphology in the pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomisgibbosus).
While bluegill are generalists, other sunfishes (e.g., redbreast sunfish and pumpkinseed) are considered specialists in their feeding ecology (e.g., Goldstein 2000, Robinson et al.
The dish was made up of grilled bone marrow, sauteed vegetables, butternut squash puree, homemade pumpkinseed brittle and brightly colored sauces.
Pomotis vulgaris = Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus): Pumpkinseed; p.
Pantry: Macadamia oil, pumpkinseed oil, coconut oil, olive oil, hemp seeds, raw almonds from Italy, brazil nuts, chia seeds, chia powder, a lot of dried supplement powders, almond butter, coconut butter, a lot of organic dog biscuits and some of my dad's really dark, dense, Baltic rye bread that lasts forever.
Fox, "Morphological change and phenotypic plasticity in native and non-native pumpkinseed sunfish in response to sustained water velocities," Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol.
Twelve species were collected only in pools and included black bullhead, black crappie, blackstripe topminnow, brown bullhead, flathead catfish, gizzard shad, orange-spotted sunfish, pumpkinseed, quillback, red-ear sunfish, spotted sucker, and white sucker.
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