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Freshwater Sunfishes and relatives
Centrarchoidei
Centrarchiformes /sɛnˈtrɑːrkɪfɔːrmiːz/ is an order of ray-finned fish, previously included amongst the perciformes. This order first appeared about 55.8 million years ago in the Eocene Era, and is composed primarily of omnivores. The order has a wide range that includes the continents of Australia and South America. Many centrarchiforms look essentially perch-like, featuring a stocky build and a spine-bearing dorsal fin, and range in size from 2.5 cm in length (for Elassoma gilberti), to 1.8 meters for...
7 branches of this suborder, most-observed first · about 92 known species
Freshwater Sunfishes
familyCentrarchidae
Old Wives
familyEnoplosidae
Pygmy Sunfishes
familyElassomatidae
Temperate Perches
familyPercichthyidae
Oriental Perches
familySinipercidae
Jutjaws
familyParascorpididae
Southern Basses
familyPerciliidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1303755.