Pumpkinseed
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This article is about the fish. For the culinary edible seed of a pumpkin, see Pumpkin seed. For the biological seed of a pumpkin, see pumpkin.
The pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus), also referred to as pond perch, common sunfish, punkie, sunfish, sunny, and kivver, is a small/medium-sized North American freshwater fish of the genus Lepomis (true sunfishes), from family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, crappies and black basses) in the order Perciformes.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Centrarchidae |
Genus: | Lepomis |
Species: | L. gibbosus |
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Lepomis gibbosus | |
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