Pumpkinseed

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.

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.

Pumpkinseed
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Centrarchidae
Genus: Lepomis
Species:
L. gibbosus
Binomial name
Lepomis gibbosus
Synonyms
  • Perca gibbosa Linnaeus, 1758
  • Eupomotis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Lepomus gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Pomotis vulgaris Cuvier, 1829
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