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Freshwater Sunfishes
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Freshwater Sunfishes

Centrarchidae

The sunfish are a family (Centrarchidae) of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Perciformes. The type genus is Centrarchus (consisting solely of the flier, C. macropterus). The family's 37 species include many fish familiar to North Americans, including the rock bass, largemouth bass, bluegill, pumpkinseed, and crappies. All are native only to North America.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 44 known species

Lepominae

subfamilyLepominae

Centrarchinae

subfamilyCentrarchinae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49588.