Is this a cichlid?

[pwmin]

Centrarchidae not Cichlidae...same Order but different Suborder even

the only cichlid native to North America is the "blue" texas

 

[MinnowMagnet]

green sunfish 100 percent, very cool fish

 

[MN_Rebel]

It looks like a longear than a green to me.

 

[andyjs]

It looks like a longear than a green to me.

Looking at it again, I'd buy that too. It's hard to tell from this angle

 

[DREAM-faw]

The only way that we all can agree is for dustabusta to catch it and take a picture of it & then post it for us Its hard to tell from this picture

 

[Bridger]

It looks like a longear than a green to me.

That was my first reaction too, but without a better picture I wouldn't be comfortable making an ID.

 

[FLESHY]

I dont really know how you guys are making this ID...best you can do from here is a family ID centrarchidae as was already mentioned. I would put my money on Lepomis machrochirus if it was me. But the edging around the opercular flap would suggest that it was a sunfish. Very dark opercular flap for a sunfish though.

 

[goestonemoa]

cool learn somthing new everyday

 

[MN_Rebel]

I can't make any positive ID from that picture, especially with that angle. It could be a pale bluegill, which I doubt but then I have hard time to see the color around the ear flap. It could be green sunfish but the green sunfish usually don't swimming out in the open. It could be a longear. It could be a Pumpkinseed X Green hybrid. It could be Pumpkinseed.

By way where is the location where this sunfish is at?

 

[warmouth]

It looks like a longear than a green to me.

I agree looks like a longear to me too.