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Bruce Stallsmith wrote:
> Lepomis species can and do hybridize in nature, but I just don't think it's
> all that common an occurence. That all begs the question of what these two
> fish are, I certainly have no strong opinion from the photos. But in three
> years of working with hundreds of bluegills and pumpkinseeds in two ponds in
> Massachusetts I never saw an individual fish that wasn't convincingly one or
> the other. Sometimes I think we confuse natural variation within a species
> with hybridization. As always, your mileage may vary...
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> Huntsville, AL, US of A
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