Species: Pomoxis annularis
White Crappie
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Actinopterygii
Order
Perciformes
Family
Centrarchidae
Genus
Pomoxis
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
marigane blanche
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Fishes - Bony Fishes - Sunfishes and Freshwater Basses
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Actinopterygii - Perciformes - Centrarchidae - Pomoxis
Ecology and Life History
Habitat Type Description
Freshwater
Migration
true - false - false
Non-migrant
true
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
Eats fishes, planktonic crustaceans, and aquatic insects; small individuals eat mostly zooplankton, fish tend to predominate in the diet of larger individuals, though zooplankton also consumed (Moyle 1976). Forages by intermittent swimming with pauses for searching.
Reproduction Comments
Spawns mostly in spring, to early summer in north. Eggs hatch in about 2-5 days. Male guards eggs. Sexually mature usually at age II or IV.
Ecology Comments
Young may form schools.
Length
33
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 Great Lakes, Hudson Bay (Red River), and Mississippi River basins from New York and southern Ontario west to Minnesota and South Dakota, and south to the Gulf; Gulf drainages from Mobile Bay, Alabama and Georgia, to Nueces River, Texas; introduced widely elsewhere in U.S.; common (Page and Burr 1991).