I don't see any redear in your fish. I'm not familiar with longears
from your area. The opercular tab is proportionately longer than on
longears from places I do know, but ......... . It's too big for an
orange-spotted, and pattern is wrong, which is the fish I know with a
longer opercular tab than most longears I know.
Bottom line -- I don't think it is a hybrid, and I think it most
likely is a longear.
David L. McNeely, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
Langston University; P.O. Box 1500
Langston, OK 73050; email: dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
telephone: (405) 466-6025; fax: 405) 466-3307
home page http://www.lunet.edu/mcneely/index.htm
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----- Original Message -----
From: Harry Thames <thames_h-in-msn.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 4:42 pm
Subject: NANFA-L-- sunfish ID
> I caught this Sunday on the Escatawba river in south Mississippi.
> This was
> 1 of the 3 males that I caught, I caught approximately 16 or so
> along a 100
> ft sand bar. Most were 2.5" - 3". I have kept a few of these in
> yearspast, I had thought that these fish were Longear sunfish but
> some people
> have told me that they think it is a hybrid, specificly a longear -
> redbreast combo . I have caught hybrids before (green and red-ear
> cross,ect.ect.) but I have never caught a whole bunch of them and
> never for
> several years, (although I do catch them in the exact same place)
>
>
>
>
>
> I will be setting up a 125 gal native tank-in-my place of business
> and I
> will stock the tank with 4-5 of these and a large school of sail-fin
> shiners. I would like to have the fish properly Identified so I
> can print
> up a booklet for children in the waiting room, a sudo-educational
> thing(better and cheaper than cable in the long run)
>
>
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> here is a link to where I have hosted the pict on the web
>
>
>
> http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c162/hmt321/sunnie.jpg
>
>
>
> it is also on as an attachment
>
> [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a
> name of image001.jpg]
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