Northern sunfish

Lepomis peltastes

Centrarchid Fish Reaching Fourteen Point Eight Centimeters

Temperate
Upper river
Northern Hemisphere
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
North America
Small
Temperate fish

The northern sunfish (Lepomis peltastes) is a freshwater fish in the centrachid family. It is endemic to the northern United States and southern Canada. Lepomis peltastes was previously recognized as a subspecies of longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis), but is now widely considered a distinct species.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Freshwater Sunfishes and Allies
Family: Centrarchidae
Genus: Lepomis
Maximum length: 14.8 cm
Water: Freshwater
Distribution: North America: St. Lawrence-Great Lakes, Hudson Bay (Red River), and upper Mississippi River basin from Ontario in Canada to Minnesota, and south to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa (where extirpated) in USA.

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