centrarchid

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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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Multispecies hybridization among native and introduced Centrarchid basses in Texas.

Reproductive seasonality, courtship and nesting in Guadalupe Bass (Micropterus treculii)

Posthodiplostomum minimum shows preference, among centrarchid fishes, for Lepomis spp.

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

Mortality of centrarchid fishes in the Potomac drainage: survey results and overview of potential contributing factors.

Transgenic zebrafish reveal tissue-specific differences in estrogen signaling in response to environmental water samples

The ontogeny of feeding behaviour in four species of centrarchid fish.

Feeding Relationships Among Tilapia zillii (Gervais, 1848), Tilapia guineensis (Bleeker, 1862) and Their Hybrid in Ayame Man-Made Lake, Cote d'Ivoire

Body size and reproductive allocation in a multiple spawning centrarchid.

Review of size- and age-dependence in batch spawning: implications for stock assessment of fish species exhibiting indeterminate fecundity

National Symposium on the Biology and Management of the Centrarchid Basses, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 3-6 February 1975.

Stock characteristics of humpback whitefish and least cisco in the Chatanika River, Alaska

Species richness and Centrarchid abundance in littoral habitats of three southern U.

Predation on largemouth bass fingerlings in artificial habitat of varying hydrilla stem density and architecture

Evaluation of injectable fluorescent tags for marking centrarchid fishes: retention rate and effects on vulnerability to predation.

Batch-tagging blacklip abalone (Haliotis rubra) for identification of hatchery-reared individuals on natural coastal reefs in New South Wales, Australia

To find out, the researchers examined museum specimens representing 29 species of centrarchid fishes.

Once fish evolve into top predators, they evolve more slowly

The black-spot (Uvulifer ambloplitis; Trematoda: Strigeoidea) of Centrarchid fishes.

Metacercarias tipo Neascus em Geophagus brasiliensis (Perciformes: Cichlidae) do rio do Peixe, Juiz de Fora, Brasil

Life history data on Centrarchid fishes of the United States and Canada.

Relacion longitud-peso del Rubio (Salminus affinis Steindachner, 1880) en la cuenca del Rio Sinu, Colombia

The presence of the white sucker and centrarchid indicate the presence of a permanent body of water with enough available oxygen to support these particular fishes.