Name: Lepomis , from the Greek, "scaled gill cover" cyanellus , from the Greek, "blue" Common Name from its bluish green color Taxonomy: Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata , animals with a spinal chord Subphylum Vertebrata , animals with a backbone Superclass Osteichthyes , bony fishes Class Actinopterygii , ray-finned and spiny rayed fishes Subclass Neopterygii Infraclass Teleostei Superorder Acanthopterygii , Order Perciformes , the perch-like fishes Suborder Percoidei Family Centrarchidae , the Sunfishes Genus Lepomis , common and eared sunfishes Description: A sunfish Length 8"-10" Weight Coloration back brownish, olive to blue-green sides are lighter and marked by vertical bars yellow underside face greenish with blue spots or lines Body thick bodied spiny dorsal fin of 10-11 spines, widely connected to soft dorsal fin opercular flap is usually short, hard, and inflexible gill flap dark but rimmed with yellow or white gill rakers long and slender lateral line complete with about 41-52 scales Head uncharacteristically large mouth for a sunfish jaw extends to midpoint of eye Identification: Field Marks short, wide head, deep body, and big mouth;
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bony bodied spiny Weight Coloration bodied spiny dorsal fin of 10-11 spines, widely connected to soft dorsal fin opercular flap Head uncharacteristically large mouth for a sunfish jaw 8"-10 Field Marks short Centrarchidae
fishes widely connected back brownish is extends are [is] [is] Family [of]
Class Actinopterygii , ray-finned and spiny rayed fishes Subclass Neopterygii Infraclass Teleostei Superorder Acanthopterygii , Order Perciformes , the perch-like fishes
T:usually short, hard, and inflexible
to midpoint of eye Identification
lighter and marked by vertical bars
wide head
Suborder Percoidei