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Centrarchidae (sunfish and sunfishes)

Wikipedia Abstract

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. The male of most species builds a nest by hollowing out a depression using his tail, then guards the eggs.
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Genus

Acantharchus (mud sunfishes) (1)
Ambloplites (rock basses) (4)
Archoplites (Sacramento perches) (1)   (1)
Centrarchus (fliers) (1)
Chaenobryttus (1)
Enneacanthus (banded sunfishes and little sunfishes) (4)
Lepomis (common sunfishes) (21)
Micropterus (15)
Pomoxis (crappies) (3)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0