Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Centrarchidae > Lepomis > Lepomis microlophusLepomis microlophus (Redear sunfish; Redear)Synonyms: Eupomotis microlophus; Pomotis microlophus; Pomotis notatus; Pomotis speciosus; Xystroplites longimanus Language: Danish; Mandarin Chinese; Spanish The redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus, also known as the shellcracker, Georgia bream, cherry gill, chinquapin, improved bream, rouge ear sunfish and sun perch) is freshwater fish native to the southeastern United States. Since it is a popular sport fish, it has been introduced to bodies of water all over North America. It is known for its diet of mollusks and snails. |
| Adult Length [1] | 17 inches (43 cm) | | Brood Dispersal [1] | In a nest | | Brood Egg Substrate [1] | Polyphils | | Brood Guarder [1] | Yes | | Litter Size [1] | 80,000 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 7 years |  | | Adult Weight [2] | 121 grams | | | Diet [3] | Omnivore, Planktivore, Detritivore | | | Female Maturity [1] | 2 years |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Amistad National Recreation Area |
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Texas, United States |
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Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve National Park |
II |
616880 |
Texas, United States |
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Canaveral National Seashore |
II |
9090 |
Florida, United States |
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Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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40530 |
United States |
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Chickasaw National Recreation Area |
V |
7025 |
Oklahoma, 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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Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary |
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California, United States |
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Cosumnes River Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve |
Ia |
2138 |
California, United States |
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Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary |
IV |
2387149 |
Florida, United States |
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Horseshoe Bend National Military Park |
V |
1926 |
Alabama, United States |
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Jean Lafitte National Hist. Park & Preserve National Historical Park |
II |
17686 |
Louisiana, United States |
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Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
28351 |
Louisiana, United States |
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Land Between the Lakes Biosphere Reserve |
V |
166264 |
Kentucky, Tennessee, United States |
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Little River National Wildlife Refuge |
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Oklahoma, United States |
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Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve (Natn'l Park) National Park |
II |
51235 |
Kentucky, United States |
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Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park |
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20001 |
Tennessee, United States |
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San Joaquin Biosphere Reserve |
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4527 |
California, 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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Upper Miss. River Nat'l Wildlife Refuge National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
25823 |
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, United States |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Frimpong, 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. ♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 3Myers, 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♦ 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. ♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 6Gibson, 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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