My student, while trying to build a photography tank made these images of hybrids involving a female pumpkinseed sunfish. Fish are half-siblings (dam / mother) generated from the same batch of eggs.
All specimans photographed are male. Interesting that some characters of pumpkinseed are obvious in some crosses but not others. Still trying to standardize background and lighting. Hybrid with redear typical in that head profile more similar to redear even among large animals. In contrast with allotetraploid version of pumpkinseed x redear (shown in earlier thread), the diploid shown here does acquire ther black ventral coloration of redear when on the nest.
x northern bluegill
Pumpkinseed_x_Bluegill_1_Male.JPG 516.67KB 21 downloads
x central longear
Pumpkinseed_x_Central_Longear_male.JPG 448.99KB 14 downloads
x redear
Pumpkinseed_x_Redear_male.JPG 506.36KB 15 downloads
x green sunfish
Pumpkinseed_x_Green_Sunfish_male.JPG 589.94KB 11 downloads
x redspotted sunfish
Pumpkinseed_x_Redspotted_male.JPG 487.85KB 11 downloads