Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Centrarchidae > Pomoxis > Pomoxis annularis

Pomoxis annularis (Calicos bass; Crappie; White crappie)

Synonyms: Cichla storeria; Pomoxis nitidus; Pomoxys brevicauda; Pomoxys intermedius; Pomoxys protacanthus
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Wikipedia Abstract

The white crappie (Pomoxis annularis) is a freshwater fish found in North America, one of the two crappies. Former common names include goldring and silver perch. The USS Goldring is named for the fish.
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  21 inches (53 cm)
Brood Dispersal [1]  In a nest
Brood Egg Substrate [1]  Phytophils
Brood Guarder [1]  Yes
Litter Size [1]  326,000
Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years
Adult Weight [2]  2.851 lbs (1.293 kg)
Diet [3]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 6 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Aplodinotus grunniens (Freshwater drum)[4]
Dorosoma cepedianum (American gizzard shad)[4]
Lepomis macrochirus (Bluegill)[4]
Menidia beryllina (Waxen silverside)[4]

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Acanthocephalus dirus[5]
Bothriocephalus cuspidatus[5]
Cleidodiscus vancleavei[5]
Leptorhynchoides thecatus[5]
Tetracleidus longus[5]

Range Map

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External References

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Citations

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.
5Gibson, 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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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