Pumpkinseed

This article is about the fish. For the culinary edible seed of a pumpkin, see Pumpkin seed. For the biological seed of a pumpkin, see pumpkin.

Pumpkinseed

Secure (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Centrarchiformes
Family: Centrarchidae
Genus: Lepomis
Species:
L. gibbosus
Binomial name
Lepomis gibbosus
Synonyms
  • Perca gibbosa Linnaeus, 1758
  • Eupomotis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Lepomus gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Pomotis vulgaris Cuvier, 1829

The pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus), also referred to as sun perch, pond perch, common sunfish, punkie, sunfish, sunny, and kivver, is a small to medium–sized freshwater fish of the genus Lepomis (true sunfishes), from the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) in the order Centrarchiformes. It is endemic to eastern North America.

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