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family Centrarchidae - sunfish family

fish family - any of various families of fish

order Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna

centrarchid, sunfish - small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed

genus Pomoxis, Pomoxis - crappies

genus Lepomis, Lepomis - bream

Ambloplites, genus Ambloplites - a genus of Centrarchidae

freshwater bass - North American food and game fish

genus Micropterus, Micropterus - American freshwater black basses

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minimum centrarchi infects fishes in the family Centrarchidae (Hoffman 1999).

Helminth parasites of two species of Lepomis (Osteichthyes: Centrarchidae) from an urban watershed and their potential use in environmental monitoring

1 <0.01 <0.01 Family Gasterosteidae Culaea inconstans 1 <0.01 <0.01 Pungitius pungitius Family Centrarchidae 1 <0.01 0.1 Ambloplites rupestris Lepomis gibbosus 1 <0.01 0.6 Lepomis macrochirus 17 0.1 2.8 Lepomis sp.

Double-crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) of Leech Lake, Minnesota: temporal variation of diets and assessment of differential prey selection in adults

Of a total of 45 fish individuals, the common carp (belonging to the family Cyprinidae; 71.1%, N 32) was the most common species followed by goldfish Carassius auratus (belonging to the family Cyprinidae; 8.9%, N = 4), tilapia Oreochromis mossambicus (belonging to the family Cichlidae; 6.7%, N 3) and large mouth bass Micropterus salmoides (belonging to the family Centrarchidae; 2.2%, N 1), whereas the rest remainded unidentified (11.1%, N = 5).

Inter-insular variation of the diet of osprey Pandion haliaetus in the Canarian archipelago

The other fishes, all of the family centrarchidae (common name "sunfishes") were processed individually.

Mobilization of mercury from contaminated soil in to an aquatic food chain

-- Between March, 2001 and August, 2002, 56 fishes representing nine species from the family Centrarchidae were collected from three backwater habitats in Hardin County, Texas, U.S.A.

Parasite assemblages in centrarchid fishes from backwater habitats in southeast Texas, U.S.A

The well-developed pharyngeal jaws in largemouth bass and other members of the family Centrarchidae were described by Lauder (1983), who observed that food processing in the pharyngeal cavity of centrarchids is especially pronounced in species such as Lepomis microlophus and L.

Functional significance of the co-localization of taste buds and teeth in the pharyngeal jaws of the largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides

The warmouth sunfish Lepomis gulosus, a member of the endemic freshwater North American family Centrarchidae was studied as a representative generalized percomorph species.

Evolution of pufferfish inflation behavior