pumpkinseed in English

noun
1
a small, edible, brightly colored freshwater fish of the sunfish family, native to North America. It is popular in aquariums and has been introduced into many European waters.
Panfish comprise the black crappie, bluegill, green sunfish, pumpkinseed , rock bass, white crappie, and yellow perch.

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1. Bluegills may interbreed with other sunfish including warmouth, green, longear and pumpkinseed

2. The term Bream includes many popular great-eating freshwater fish, including bluegill, redear sunfish, green sunfish, and pumpkinseed, to name some of the most common species

3. Bluegills go by many names depending on the area of the country--Sunfish, Brim, Bream, Pumpkinseed, Coppernose, call them what you want and order the wild caught frozen fillets here.

4. The alkaline, nutrient-rich waters and large aquatic grass beds that partially border the slow-flowing parts of the fluvial section of the St. Lawrence result in an abundance of several species of gregarious fish, including yellow perch Perca flavescens and pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus, a large component of the Great Blue Heron’s diet in this sector of the St. Lawrence River (DesGranges 1981 and unpubl. data).