sunfish and hybrid Identification

sandtiger

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teleost;2703155; said:
Please make this stop. Too much to refute and this isn't really helping anyone but yourself.
His common names are valid and the source material for them is provided on this link...
http://www.outdooralabama.com/fishing/freshwater/fish/bream/orangespotted/

Common names are a PITA, it would be nice if everyone used the same one but unfortunately that is not the case. One mans Orangespotted is another's Redspotted. Luckily scientific names are universal. That said the majority of texts and web sites use the same common names so I see no reason why the same cannot be encouraged here.
 

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I agreed with Sandtiger, the common names are not important anymore for ID the fish.
 

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all right iam going to add 2 more to the list :popcorn:
 

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Oh by way Redspotted sunfish and Orangespotted sunfish are not same species. Redspotted were once thought a subspecies of Spotted (or Blackspotted) sunfish but now separated species. Redspotted sunfish as Lepomis miniatus and Blackspotted as punctatus.
 

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i dont really see the point in this unless somebody has NEVER heard about sunfish. plus there are already lots of threads about this out there
 

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MN_Rebel;2703738; said:
Oh by way Redspotted sunfish and Orangespotted sunfish are not same species.
They aren't to you, but they could both be regional common names for L. humilis. That's why common names in some cases are useless. For example, in one location I sampled over the summer, the locals referred to anything remotely sunfish-like as a "bluegill." A local even asked another guy if a gizzard shad we caught was a "bass or a bluegill?":ROFL:
 

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I've told the story before but while collecting fish once a couple locals asked if I had gotten any stonecats. I told them no and showed them what I had, they looked at the sculpins I had collected and told me "those are stonecats right there". I didn't argue with them.

Stonecat (Noturus flavus)

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SOURCE: http://dcnr.state.al.us/
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This is more of a rare wild hybrid, userly created/farmed because its fast growing and its a great sport fish
Identification:this is a hard to identify hybrid, userly the fish is vary dark in coloration. Red ring around the ear flap. dark vertical bands on the side
do you mean usually? I'm confused
 

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Spotted Sunfish
Lepomis punctatus
Temp:70-89
Range: Central North America, as far north as Missiouri and southern Illinois, as far south as Texas-Florida

Identification:Another smaller sunfish, commonly has small black dots in horizotal rows across its body. Color is verys by fish but males are normaly black to red-orange while females are yellow to brown.3 anal, 10-11 dorsal spines. 10-11 dorsal, 10-11 anal and 13-15 pectoral rays. 39-42 lateral line scales.

Adult Spotted
64spotted_sunfish-med.jpg

Juvi/young Spotted
CB044296.jpg

Juvi/young Spotted
Spotted-Sunfish.jpg

Site:
http://aslo.org/photopost/data/517/64spotted_sunfish-med.jpg

http://books.google.com/books?id=-8...X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA438,M1

http://www.thejump.net/id/more-fish/Spotted-Sunfish.jpg

http://pro.corbis.com/images/CB044296.jpg?size=572&uid=%7B1F101845-AB10-471A-BE5C-82017AF5B0B0%7D
 
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