New Sunfish (id?)

[amesbien]

Ok, so today I decided to go fishing for a sunny for my native tank. I already have a small kind of shiner, don't know exactly what type it is either (id plz?) I caught this small, pretty little sunny today, but I cant ID him. Im pretty sure it is a pumpkin seed sunfish, but it doesn't have the small red crescent around the black spot next to its gills.....it was in a pond with a buch of bluegills. Anyway, here the little guy is.

 

[Skipjack]

I think it is a pumpkin seed.

 

[dovii88]

pumpkin seed

 

[sandtiger]

Looks like a green, or perhaps a green hybrid even. Definantly has green in it though. Can't help ya with the cyprinid.

 

[Optimist]

I once caught one that looks exactly like that. Turned out to be a green.

 

[sandtiger]

The more I look at it the more I think it's just a pure green and not a hybrid. Green hybrids are common though. I have only ever caught two greens here in NY and they were both adults so I don't have much first hand experiance with younger individuals like that one. They aren't exactly common around NY.

 

[Duckman77]

Color looks p'seed, but that mouth is all green sunnie.

 

[Skipjack]

Yeah, I can see this being a green, but something looks off. Not sure what it is though.

 

[meepster]

the bottom fish looks like a redfin shiner

 

[drewish]

I'd say the sunfish is a green sunfish, and the minnow is a blacknose dace.