2016 US Midwest

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(05-28-2016 03:05 PM)Fossil Fish Wrote:  I suppose I could just google this, but how many sunfish/Lepomis species are there? Congrats on checking them all off your list. Which one was the most challenging?

There are 13 recognized Lepomis species on FishBase. (See link below)

http://www.fishbase.org/identification/S...us=Lepomis

The hardest one is probably the Warmouth. I've only even caught one, and it was more or less an incidental catch (I did not target it). Whereas, all the other Lepomis species I did seek out to target each and every one of them.

There are other "Sunfishes" under different genus. (yes = caught already)

Acantharchus species (1) - Mud (yes)

Enneacanthus species (3) - Blackbanded (yes), Banded (yes) and Bluespotted (yes)

Then there are other genus within the Sunfish family.

Ambloplites (4) - Rockbass (yes), Shadow Bass (yes), Ozark Bass (yes), Roanoke Bass (not yet)

Archoplites (1) - Sacramento Perch (not yet)

Centrarchus (1) - Flier (yes)

Pomoxis (2) - White Crappie (yes), Black Crappie (yes)

And the last genus in the Sunfish family is Micropterus (Black Bass)...there's still a lot of work for me to complete the Micropterus family...but when I eventually become a teacher and I can have my summers off, I'll be making some crazy road trips to cross off all the Basses