| Centrarchidae (Sunfishes) |
| 17.5 cm TL (male/unsexed); max. reported age: 4 years |
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benthopelagic; freshwater |
| North America: lower Great Lakes (in southern ends of Lakes Erie and Michigan), Hudson Bay, and Mississippi River basin from Ohio to southern North Dakota, and south to Louisiana in the USA; in Gulf Slope drainages from Mobile Bay in Alabama to Colorado River in Texas in the USA. |
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| Inhabits quiet pools of creeks and small to large, often turbid, rivers; usually near brush (Ref. 5723, 10294). Feeds on microcrustaceans and aquatic insect larvae, principally chironomid dipterans (Ref. 10294). |
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Least Concern (LC); Date assessed: 01 March 2012 Ref. (130435)
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| harmless |
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