Species: Lepomis gibbosus
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Actinopterygii
Order
Perciformes
Family
Centrarchidae
Genus
Lepomis
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Classification
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Fishes - Bony Fishes - Sunfishes and Freshwater Basses
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Actinopterygii - Perciformes - Centrarchidae - Lepomis - 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.
Ecology and Life History
Habitat Type Description
Freshwater
Migration
true - false - false
Non-migrant
true
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
Eats snails, aquatic insects, and other invertebrates obtained from bottom or from plant surfaces; pharyngeal jaws are specialized for crushing hard-shelled prey; larvae eat zooplankton (Moyle 1976, Becker 1983).
Reproduction Comments
Spawns in spring and summer; eggs hatch in about 3-5 days; male guards eggs; sexually mature in 2nd or 3rd year; may nest in colonies (Moyle 1976).
Length
40
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-09-23
Global Status Last Changed
1996-09-23
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Native to much of Atlantic slope from New Brunswick to Edisto River, South Carolina; Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, and upper Mississippi basins from Quebec and New York to southeastern Manitoba and North Dakota, and south to northern Kentucky and Missouri drainage; common (Page and Burr 1991). Widely introduced in western U.S., southern Canada, and Europe.