sunfish in English

noun
1
a large deep-bodied marine fish of warm seas, with tall dorsal and anal fins near the rear of the body and a very short tail.
Covered in sandpapery skin smeared with copious amounts of mucus, the Mola mola, or giant ocean sunfish , grows up to 10 feet long and can weigh over 5,000 pounds.
2
a nest-building freshwater fish that is native to North America and popular in aquariums, e.g., the pumpkinseed.
Panfish comprise the black crappie, bluegill, green sunfish , pumpkinseed, rock bass, white crappie, and yellow perch.
noun
  • ocean sunfishmola
  • centrarchid

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1. Bluegill SUNFISH (Lepomis macrochirus)

2. Boxfishes / Filefishes / Mola Sunfish / Puffers / Porcupinefishes / Triggerfishes

3. Bluegill often hybridize with other sunfish species

4. Panfish - (Bluegill, Crappie, Sunfish, Yellow Perch) Fishing Wisconsin

5. See sunfish sunfish, common name for members of the family Centrachidae, comprising numerous species of spiny-finned, freshwater fishes with deep, laterally Explanation of Breams

6. Perch, Bream, and sunfish—same thing right? WRONG

7. Hybrid Bluegill The Hybrid Bluegill is a cross between a Male Bluegill and a Female Green Sunfish, and is sometimes referred to as a Hybrid Sunfish

8. 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

9. The Sunfish has two sizes of Bailers based on production year

10. In scale, carp) or Ctenoid scales (e.g., perch; sunfish)

11. Bream is a catch-all term for many species of sunfish

12. Sunfish / Bluegill fillets--5 pound box--headless, scaled, skin on frozen fillets

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

14. Various types of Bream or sunfish are the most commonly found fish in Alabama

15. Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus)Common Names – bream, blue bream, sun perch, blue sunfish, copperhead, copperbelly, roach.

16. What Bailer do I need? 13/16" vs 1-5/16" Sunfish Bailers

17. I am reattaching the Coaming to the deck of a 1969 sunfish I've owned since new

18. The Bluegill AKA Copper nose/Bream is a sunfish that most people identify with in a fishery

19. The crappie (sometimes mistakenly spelled Crappy) is a popular North American panfish related to the sunfish

20. Conveniently pre-rigged imitation of a juicy Bloodworm catches jumbo panfish including sunfish, crappies and perch

21. Ctenoid scales are scales with comb-like edge found in higher order teleost fishes, such as perch and sunfish

22. The Bluegill is a small-mouthed sunfish with the upper jaw not reaching past the front of the eye

23. Crappies are tasty, fun to catch freshwater game fish who are a part of the sunfish family

24. “Sunfish (Bluegills and pumpkinseeds) can be found around all types of structure, including weeds, rocks, brush, docks, and overhanging branches

25. 28 They were sunfish, beautiful gold-and-green fish with a bright red spot on the edge of each gill cover.

26. Toxicity tests have been conducted in the US on bluegill sunfish, rainbow trout, and the freshwater invertebrate Daphnia magna.

27. What is a Bream? Pronounced, “brim”, this is a convenient, if vague, term to collectively refer to a variety of sunfish species

28. Both the black Crappie, Pomoxis nigromaculatus, and the white Crappie, Pomoxis annularus, are the most distinctive and largest members of the Centrarchidae family of sunfish

29. It is a member of the sunfish family whose members are commonly referred to as “sunnies.” Average lifespan of the Bluegill is five to six years

30. Bream as a group are also commonly called “sunfish” or “panfish.” Small Bream are often called “dinks.” Bream are important to the recreational fishing sector.

31. 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.

32. Bluegills are commonly called bream, but the term bream is a common name that refers to several members of the family Lepomis — to include redear sunfish and Bluegills

33. Ctenoid scales are scales with comb-like edge found in higher order teleost fishes, such as perch and sunfish. Cteni are the tiny teeth on the posterior margin of the scale

34. Part of the Sunfish family, Bluegill prefer warm water lakes, rivers, creeks, and ponds.Bluegill are opportunists when it comes to feeding and will commonly eat things like plankton, insects, worms, and small minnows.

35. Sunfish were split lengthwise and laid on the horizontal poles of the rack while large fish such as pickerel or Bullpouts [catfish], were cleaned and cut along each side of the backbone, leaving the head attached to the body of the fish and also to the backbone

36. Around the country, the prevalent Breams may be known as brim, sunfish, panfish, or Bream, but no matter what you call them, it is the first fish most of us caught and one of the best-flavored fish around They are round in many lakes and ponds, are easy to catch and

37. Around the country, the prevalent Breams may be known as brim, sunfish, panfish, or bream, but no matter what you call them, it is the first fish most of us caught and one of the best-flavored fish around They are round in many lakes and ponds, are easy to catch and

38. Zuni Bluehead sucker numbers have been starkly reduced in the Zuni River watershed in New Mexico, largely due to 27 chemical treatments during the 1960s to remove green sunfish and fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) from the Rio Nutria to aid in the establishment of a rainbow trout sport fishery in reservoirs on Zuni Pueblo (Winter 1979, p