--Bruce Stallsmith
Along the balmy Tennessee
Huntsville, AL, US of A
>From: Mike Haren <mh4mac-in-comcast.net>
>Reply-To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>Subject: NANFA-L-- A Little Lepomis or Enneacanthus Help
>Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:48:14 -0500
>
> Today I went out with my daughter and did a bit of dip netting. Great day,
>we found many isopods and copepods , very large I might add and appear to
>be coupling.( hurray! might get a culture going) along with some healthy
>Eastern Mudminnows but we also were finding a large amount of sunfish I
>cannot ID. They appear to be of Enneacanthus and not Lopomis, and to me it
>seems to be Enneacanthus obesus ( banded sunfish) and I wanted to get a
>second opinion. I no they are listed endangered in PA but as of yet not in
>NJ, Not even on the concerned list. NJ actually has NO fish listed
>"Endangered" or "Of Concern" except for the atlantic sturgeon. I just hope
>it's not from lack of research or interest , weird huh?
>
> I have some pics here to view:
>https://home.comcast.net/~mh4mac/Public/Lepomis1.jpg
>https://home.comcast.net/~mh4mac/Public/Lepomis2.jpg
>https://home.comcast.net/~mh4mac/Public/Lepomis3.jpg
>
>P.s. I listed it as Lepomis before doing a little research.
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