Spotted Sunfish-Wacamaw National Wildlife Refuge, South Carolina

The spotted sunfish is a member of the freshwater sunfish family Centrarchidae and order perciformes. The redspotted sunfish, redear sunfish and pumpkinseed sunfish are its closest relatives.
''Lepomis punctatus'' is olive-green to brown in color with black to reddish spots at the base of each scale that form rows of dots on the side. The scientific name punctatus refers to this spotted pattern. It was first described in 1831 by Valenciennes.

The spotted sunfish is a warmwater native.. more