Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Centrarchidae > Lepomis > Lepomis gibbosusLepomis gibbosus (kiver; Yellow sunfish; Sunny; Sunfish; Sun bass; Punky; Pumpkinseed sunfish; Pumpkinseed; Pond perch; Common sunfish)Synonyms: Apomotis phenax (pro parte); Eupomotis aureus; Eupomotis gibbosus; Labrus anutus; Lepomis euryorus (pro parte); Lepomus gibbosus; Morone maculata; Perca gibbosa (homotypic); Pomotis catesbei; Pomotis gibbosus (pro parte); Pomotis holbroockii; Pomotis ravenellii; Pomotis vulgaris; Sparus aureus; Sparus mocasinus Language: Czech; Danish; Dutch; Finnish; French; German; Greek; Hungarian; Italian; Mandarin Chinese; Norwegian; Polish; Portuguese; Romanian; Russian; Serbian; Slovak; Slovenian; Swedish (This article is about the fish. For the edible seed of a pumpkin, see Pepita.) The pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus) is a North American freshwater fish of the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) of order Perciformes. It is also referred to as pond perch, common sunfish, punkys, sunfish, sunny, and kivver. |
| Adult Length [2] | 16 inches (40 cm) | | Brood Dispersal [2] | In a nest | | Brood Egg Substrate [2] | Polyphils | | Brood Guarder [2] | Yes | | Litter Size [2] | 14,000 | | Maximum Longevity [2] | 8 years | | Migration [1] | Potamodromous | | Water Biome [1] | Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams |  | | Diet [1] | Carnivore | | | Female Maturity [2] | 2 years |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Alaska & Canada Pacific Coastal |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Cantabric Coast - Languedoc |
France, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Columbia Glaciated |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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Columbia Unglaciated |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Lahontan |
United States |
Nearctic |
Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins |
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Laurentian Great Lakes |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Large Lakes |
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Middle Missouri |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Northern Baltic Drainages |
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden |
Palearctic |
Polar Freshwaters |
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Oregon & Northern California Coastal |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Sacramento - San Joaquin |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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St. Lawrence |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Teays - Old Ohio |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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Tennessee |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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Upper Missouri |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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| Name |
IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Acadia National Park |
II |
35996 |
Maine, United States |
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Aggtelek Biosphere Reserve National Park |
II |
59233 |
Hungary |
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Algonquin Provincial Park |
IV |
1868802 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
16363 |
Delaware, United States |
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Bruce Peninsula National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Carl Sandburg Home National Hist. Site National Historic Site |
III |
271 |
North Carolina, United States |
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Colonial National Historic Park National Historical Park |
V |
9316 |
Virginia, United States |
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Congaree Swamp National Park |
II |
6095 |
South Carolina, United States |
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DOÑANA |
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281453 |
Spain |
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Epping Forest |
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3966 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Fathom Five National Marine Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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George Washington Memorial Parkway |
V |
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Virginia, United States |
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Georgian Bay Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Gettysburg National Military Park |
V |
3560 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
3161 |
New Jersey, United States |
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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park |
VI |
715 |
West Virginia, United States |
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Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site |
III |
861 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
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Hortobágy National Park |
II |
140004 |
Hungary |
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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore |
II |
8272 |
Indiana, United States |
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Isle Royale Biosphere Reserve |
Ib |
571799 |
Michigan, United States |
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Kiskunsag Biosphere Reserve |
II |
54598 |
Hungary |
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La Mauricie National Park |
II |
131706 |
Quebec, Canada |
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Manassas National Battlefield Park |
III |
5132 |
Virginia, United States |
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Neusiedler See-Osterreichischer Teil |
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Austria |
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New Jersey Pinelands Biosphere Reserve |
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New Jersey, United States |
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New River Gorge National River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
55591 |
West Virginia, United States |
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Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve |
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470167 |
Ontario, Canada |
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North Temperate Lakes LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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Wisconsin, United States |
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Palava Protected Landscape Area |
V |
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Czech Republic |
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Paul do Boquilobo Biosphere Reserve Nature Reserve |
IV |
1352 |
Portugal |
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Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore |
II |
67888 |
Michigan, United States |
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Point Pelee National Park |
II |
5764 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Prespa National Park |
II |
62043 |
Greece |
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Prince William Forest Park |
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19378 |
District of Columbia, United States |
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Reserve de la Biosphere des Vosges du Nord Biosphere Reserve |
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301469 |
France |
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Reserve Srebarna Managed Reserve |
IV |
2294 |
Bulgaria |
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Rock Creek Park |
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District of Columbia, United States |
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Roosevelt Vanderbilt National Historic Site |
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New York, United States |
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Saint Croix International Historic Site |
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Maine, United States |
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Saint Lawrence Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site |
III |
139 |
New Hampshire, United States |
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Shenandoah National Park |
II |
108221 |
Virginia, United States |
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South Atlantic Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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20317 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Studenetz |
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69315 |
Bulgaria |
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Upper Miss. River Nat'l Wildlife Refuge National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
25823 |
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, United States |
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Valley Forge National Historical Park |
VI |
3509 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
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Voyageurs National Park |
II |
177960 |
Minnesota, United States |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495. ♦ 3Variation in resource abundance affects diet and feeding morphology in the pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus), Gary G. Mittelbach, Craig W. Osenberg, and Peter C. Wainwright, Oecologia (1992) 90: 8-13 ♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 5The aquatic moth Acentria ephemerella as a key species in submerged aquatic vegetation - direct and trait-mediated interactions with predators and food plants, Oliver Miler, PhD thesis at the Limnological Institute / University of Konstanz, research group Limnology of Lakes, 2008 ♦ 6Reproductive parameters in relation to food supply in the whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida), Jean-Marc Paillisson, Sébastien Reeber, Alexandre Carpentier, Loïc Marion, J Ornithol (2007) 148:6977 ♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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