Fish ID?

[le patron]

Just ignore the haters, they don't have the capacity to appreciate what lives in their own backyard.

rock on native keepers

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

hmm odd looking little thing first time ive seen this combo/hybrid. deffinatly got bluegill colors on side. but it is longer like a green. but it dosnt look like a green x bluegill

 

[le patron]

hmm odd looking little thing first time ive seen this combo/hybrid. deffinatly got bluegill colors on side. but it is longer like a green. but it dosnt look like a green x bluegill

the more i look at it, i agree with you. very possibly a greengill. i just looked at my bluegill and his mouth looks about half the size of that and he's 5". sorry for the inaccurate id.

 

[teleost]

I agree with the many others that say Lepomis cyanellus Green Sunfish.
This fish has a large mouth (lip extends to middle of the eye). This rules out Bluegill.
This fish has a short rounded pectoral fin (does not extend past eye). This also rules out Bluegill as they're pectoral fin is pointed and extends past the eye.

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

I agree with the many others that say Lepomis cyanellus Green Sunfish.
This fish has a large mouth (lip extends to middle of the eye). This rules out Bluegill.
This fish has a short rounded pectoral fin (does not extend past eye). This also rules out Bluegill as they're pectoral fin is pointed and extends past the eye.

look at the colors its not right to be a normal green, greens typicaly have horizontal broken bands of blue down the side not verticle stripes with no blue, looks like a bluegills side

 

[sandtiger]

look at the colors its not right to be a normal green, greens typicaly have horizontal broken bands of blue down the side not verticle stripes with no blue, looks like a bluegills side

Teleost knows what he is talking about and as we discussed before, color is not always a good tool for identification, colors vary with populations and individual genetic makeup, not to mention many fish can change colors, patterns, etc. In my college ichthyology class color was useless as an identification tool because all the fish we had to identify were dead, preserved and colorless. One of the most important things I learned in that class is to not always rely on color. Anyway, its not a bluegill, none of the key features match up.
As for the hybrid suggestion...just because you cannot properly identify a fish does not make it a hybrid people, that word gets tossed around more often than it should IMO.

 

[Venom SS]

Ide love to have all 8 of them...shouldnt take long to figure out what I would use them for lol \/\/\/\/\/\/\/

 

[Druu]

Let's just call it Lepomis sp. ;-)

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

Teleost knows what he is talking about and as we discussed before, color is not always a good tool for identification, colors vary with populations and individual genetic makeup, not to mention many fish can change colors, patterns, etc. In my college ichthyology class color was useless as an identification tool because all the fish we had to identify were dead, preserved and colorless. One of the most important things I learned in that class is to not always rely on color. Anyway, its not a bluegill, none of the key features match up.
As for the hybrid suggestion...just because you cannot properly identify a fish does not make it a hybrid people, that word gets tossed around more often than it should IMO.

i dont make my jugments on just color but it is a main factor. now hybrids in sunnies are very common and should be used. this fish has certeristics of both bluegill and green sunfish. it also has a lack of pigimentation on its face

 

[kagami]

Definetly bluegill or some species of sunfish which are similar to bluegill. Those are bluegill though I used to work at Petco as well and a couple of times we reaceived some blugill in with the comets. I ended up taking them home.