spotted sunfish
noun
a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.
Origin of spotted sunfish
1First recorded in 1880–85
- Also called stumpknocker.
Words Nearby spotted sunfish
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How to use spotted sunfish in a sentence
Other common species were long-eared sunfish, red shiner, yellow bullhead, orange-spotted sunfish and green sunfish.
Fish Populations, Following a Drought, in the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes Rivers of Kansas | James Everett Deacon
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