sunfish and hybrid Identification

[MultispeciesTamer]

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

yeah i relize i use userly alot, my bad i use it as a general term because there is always differences within a species due to range, climate and food

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

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.

redspotted is the next one on my list

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

Redspotted Sunfish
Lepomis miniatus
Temp: 70-80
Range:Mississippi River vally from Illinois to the gulf of Mexico,also found in parts of Texas. River systems in Georgia.

Idetification: Dark colored body with a hint of red or orange. Dark red spots in rows across its body. Small mouth,pectoral fin does not reach nostril when bent forward. Upper jaw does not meet bottum of eye. Bottum fins are orangy or grey in color, Ear flap has a small ring of white or red around it. 3 anal, and 6-13 dorsal spines. 10-12 dorsal,10 or 11 anal, 13-14 pectoral rays. 35-43 lateral line scales.


Adult Male


Adult


Juvi/baby


Sites:
http://books.google.com/books?id=uZ...&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result

http://www.bio.txstate.edu/~tbonner/txfishes/lepomis%20miniatus.htm

http://neworleanscitypark.com/guides/img/fish/redspottedsunfish.jpg

http://www.samford.edu/schools/arts...tos/Redspotted-sunfish-(Lepomis miniatus).jpg

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...p=20&um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4SUNA_enUS307US245&sa=N

 

[troutking]

what about the green sunfish

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

what about the green sunfish

its on the list, i got at least 18 more to go and still got more to add

 

[andyjs]

yeah i relize i use userly alot, my bad i use it as a general term because there is always differences within a species due to range, climate and food

...but the word is not "userly," it's "usually." He wasn't comment on your word use, he was commenting on the fact you made up a word

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

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

Oh now i see your little writing on the bottum now, yeah i ment usually, i was just doing so many things at once i must have forgot to spell check my self

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

...but the word is not "userly," it's "usually." He wasn't comment on your word use, he was commenting on the fact you made up a word

yes i see that now i didnt notice he wrote something at the bottum of his quote of my writing

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

kk iam done for today, tomorrow I got blue spotted sunfish, green sunfish, and red breast sunfish

 

[andyjs]

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.[FONT=arial,sans-serif][SIZE=-1]http://dcnr.state.al.us/
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We met some interesting locals this summer while sampling different areas of eastern Ohio. One kid (who probably should have been in school, it was very late summer) brought us a big dead spiny softshell with no head..."y'all ever seen one like this before?" and then through it in the river we were sampling.

I also got my first stonecat sting (actually two at the same time, 1 from each pectoral)...pretty painful