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centrarchid

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n.1.any of a group of small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed.
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Noun1.centrarchid - small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
sunfish
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
Centrarchidae, family Centrarchidae - sunfish family
crappie - small sunfishes of central United States rivers
freshwater bream, bream - any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis
Lepomis gibbosus, pumpkinseed - small brilliantly colored North American sunfish
Ambloplites rupestris, rock sunfish, rock bass - game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes
black bass - widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family)
sunfish - the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae
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To find out, the researchers examined museum specimens representing 29 species of centrarchid fishes.
Once fish evolve into top predators, they evolve more slowly by Asian News International
Mutton Creek was dominated by centrarchid and catostomid species.
Distribution of fishes of the Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge, ... by Burskey, Jacob L.; Simon, Thomas P. / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
The black-spot (Uvulifer ambloplitis; Trematoda: Strigeoidea) of Centrarchid fishes.
Metacercarias tipo Neascus em Geophagus brasiliensis (Perciformes: ... by Reder de Carvalho, Adriano; Roland Tavares, Luis Eduardo; Luis Luque, José / Acta Scientiarum Biological Sciences (UEM)
 
 
 
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