Bluegill can be found everywhere in the contiguous united states, but does anyone know were they originate?
Home Range of Bluegill
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Posted 28 October 2010 - 06:47 PM
The native range goes from the Rio Grande drainage north to the Great Lakes, and from the Rockies east to the Atlantic, except for the northern Atlantic slope. It was a very wide-ranging fish even before humans started moving it around.
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Posted 29 October 2010 - 11:46 AM
Some introduced populations may be derived from particular source populations. This is important when considering at least three types of "bluegill" with different natural distributions can be distinguished based on appearance alone. You do not have use scale, spine and / or ray counts to do it; just colors and general appearance. Its like a trip to the candy store seeing the different types of bluegill all together and alive.
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Posted 29 October 2010 - 03:28 PM
Some introduced populations may be derived from particular source populations. This is important when considering at least three types of "bluegill" with different natural distributions can be distinguished based on appearance alone. You do not have use scale, spine and / or ray counts to do it; just colors and general appearance. Its like a trip to the candy store seeing the different types of bluegill all together and alive.
Do you have images of the types to make it easier to ID them?
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Posted 30 October 2010 - 02:10 PM
I think he is probably referring to the "hand paint" variation... if I remember right he talked about them before, but I cannot remember where they occurred.What are the three? I've only heard of coppernose and "northern".
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Posted 25 November 2010 - 10:17 PM
Do you have images of the types to make it easier to ID them?
here is a few links i found.
http://www.byrdultra...copperheads.htm
http://forum.nanfa.o...ill-subspecies/
http://gallery.nanfa...s/Lmacrochirus/
http://www.google.co...ved=0CCUQ9QEwAQ
Edited by CATfishTONY, 25 November 2010 - 11:13 PM.
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Posted 26 November 2010 - 12:20 AM
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