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Centrarchidae
Orangespotted sunfish
Lepomis humilis
Deep Bodied Centrarchid Fish of North American Waters
- Orange
- Temperate
- Lower river
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- North America
- Deep-bodied
- Medium
- Temperate fish
Orange
Temperate
Regional distribution
Deep-bodied
MediumOrangespotted sunfish is known from North America as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Centrarchidae
- Genus
- Lepomis
- Maximum length
- 17.5 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- North America: lower Great Lakes (in southern ends of Lakes Erie and Michigan), Hudson Bay, and Mississippi River basin from Ohio to southern North Dakota, and south to Louisiana in the USA; in Gulf Slope drainages from Mobile Bay in Alabama to Colorado River in Texas in the USA.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
