🐟Pumpkinseed
The pumpkinseed, also referred to as sun perch, pond perch, common sunfish, punkie, sunfish, sunny, and kivver, is a small to medium–sized freshwater fish of the genus Lepomis, from the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) in the order Centrarchiformes. It is endemic to eastern North America.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.
- Body mass
- 0.63 kg
- Body length
- 0.1 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 12 years
Everything we know about the Pumpkinseed
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.63 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length0.1 mrecord 0.4 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Maximum lifespan12 yearsmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic level3.25FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.25 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humanspotential pestFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.6 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Pumpkinseed yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderPerciformes
- ›familyCentrarchidae
- ›genusLepomis
- ›speciesLepomis gibbosus
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- superfamilyCentrarchoidei
- familyCentrarchidae
- genusLepomis
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- orderCentrarchiformes
- superfamilyCentrarchoidei
- familyCentrarchidae
- genusLepomis
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