Identify your North American Native Fish

[Skipjack]

Aren't the pectoral fins too long for a bantam, I cannot really tell from the photo, but if they end where I think they do, they seem too long.

 

[dredcon]

Its not a bantam, it was to big. It is the biggest specimen of its species I have ever seen. Its color was very different upon death and more characteristic of others specimens I have caught. Here is a pic of one from my tank. I could be wrong about the fish in the first pic, but this one should be easy to get.

 

[Skipjack]

punctatus

 

[Skipjack]

Okay, what is Lepomis puntatus miniatus ?

 

[Skipjack]

dredcon, where are you?

 

[dredcon]

I've been working up todays collection, blue crabs. The fish is the redspotted sunfish, Lepomis miniatus. Sadly, I was not able to preserve the fish in the first pic since someone tossed it before it hit the formalin.

 

[Skipjack]

here you go.

 

[dredcon]

Looks nonnative to me, use it for cutbait.

 

[teleost]

You can't ID a fish with that pic so you forfeit your turn.

Try this one. I'll accept one of two answers.

 

[Skipjack]

Luxilus chrysocephalus ?