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Photos - Freshwater Fish - Sunfish (Centrarchidae)

These photos are copyright protected © and provided to EPA on a limited basis for educational use only.  The photographer's name is shown in the alt-tag. If you would like to use these photos for any reason please contact us and we will inform the photographer.

Learn more about fish as environmental indicators and read An Introduction to Freshwater Fishes as Biological Indicators (EPA-260-R-08-016 November 2008) (96pp, 3.3MBAbout PDF).

Rock Bass - photo by Jeff Grabarkiewicz
Rock Bass (Amblopites rupestris)
Flier - photo by Wayne S. Davis ©
Flier (Centrarchus macropterus)
Blackbanded Sunfish - photo by Wayne S. Davis ©
Blackbanded Sunfish (Enneacanthus chaetodon)
Blackbanded Sunfish - photo by Wayne S. Davis ©
Blue spotted sunfish
(Enneacanthus gloriosus)
Longear Sunfish - photo by Wayne S. Davis ©

Longear Sunfish (Lepomis megalotis)

Northern Longear Sunfish - photo by Jeff Grabarkiewicz
Northern Longear Sunfish (Lepomis megalotis peltastes)
Orange spotted sunfish - photo by Wayne S. Davis ©
Orange spotted sunfish (Lepomis humilis)
Orange spotted sunfish - photo by Jeff Grabarkiewicz
Orange spotted sunfish (Lepomis humilis)
Pumpinkseed Sunfish - photo by Wayne S. Davis ©
Pumpkinseed Sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus)
Bluegill - photo by Wayne S. Davis ©
Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus)
Dollar sunfish - photo by Wayne S. Davis ©
Dollar Sunfish
(Lepomis marginatus)
Longear sunfish - photo by Wayne S. Davis ©
Longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis)
Smallmouth Bass - photo by Wayne S. Davis ©
Smallmouth bass
(Micropterus dolomieu)
Largemouth Bass - photo by Wayne S. Davis ©
Largemouth bass
(Micropterus salmoides)
White Crappie - photo by Wayne S. Davis ©
White Crappie (Pomoxis annularis)
Black Crappie - photo by Wayne S. Davis ©
Black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)

Photo credits: All Digital Photographs by Jeff Grabarkiewicz, Wayne S. Davis, and Todd Crail.

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