Longear, Red Breast, or Dollar Sunfish?
#1 Guest_stumpy041486_*
Posted 21 June 2009 - 08:17 PM
Thanks
#2 Guest_Kanus_*
Posted 21 June 2009 - 08:34 PM
#3 Guest_stumpy041486_*
Posted 21 June 2009 - 08:38 PM
This is from SE Mississippi
#4 Guest_Amazon_*
Posted 21 June 2009 - 08:44 PM
#5 Guest_centrarchid_*
Posted 21 June 2009 - 08:47 PM
sorry I forgot again
This is from SE Mississippi
Looks like the spangled version of longear that occurs near the Gulf of Mexico in eastern Lousiana and southern Alabama. It is quite different from any of the three types of longear I see in and around Missouri.
Not redbreast or western dollar sunfish.
#6 Guest_Casper Cox_*
Posted 21 June 2009 - 08:49 PM
I still cant tell those two apart. Dollars are smaller and have a smaller range. Check your Petersons. Some talk about blue or white markings ON the ear, saying those WITH markings are Dollar. Im not sure about this. Both are incredibly beautiful sunfish, my favorite Sunnies. Regarding Redbreast, the white trim does NOT encircle the ear.
Also your fish is "rounder" which is a Dollar trait too.
Anybody else?
#7 Guest_UncleWillie_*
Posted 21 June 2009 - 08:56 PM
Edited by UncleWillie, 21 June 2009 - 08:58 PM.
#8 Guest_centrarchid_*
Posted 21 June 2009 - 09:00 PM
Longear OR Dollar.
I still cant tell those two apart. Dollars are smaller and have a smaller range. Check your Petersons. Some talk about blue or white markings ON the ear, saying those WITH markings are Dollar. Im not sure about this. Both are incredibly beautiful sunfish, my favorite Sunnies. Regarding Redbreast, the white trim does NOT encircle the ear.
Also your fish is "rounder" which is a Dollar trait too.
Anybody else?
The white trim around the opercular tab does not work for many of the longear populations I am familiar with. The pectoral ray counts do not hold either when trying to distinguish many of the longear populations within the Mississippi Embayment from westrn dollar sunfish occuring in the same areas.
For me, it is something about the mouth that separates the longears from the western dollar sunfish. The mandibles of the longears seem more suited for biting (robust) while the western dollar has a more delicate mouth like a bluegill.
As for redbreast, they have a stiffer and more elongate body that is less flexible when they swim.
#9 Guest_stumpy041486_*
Posted 21 June 2009 - 09:29 PM
If this is a longear it is a potential state record. The MS state record longear is 0.14lbs and this one weighed 3oz on my digital scale which would be 0.1875lbs. I was considering putting him in my pond, but I went to go check on him and committed suicide. He jumped out of the bucket with the top on the bucket but it wasn't latched.
#10 Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 21 June 2009 - 10:39 PM
#11 Guest_stumpy041486_*
Posted 21 June 2009 - 10:51 PM
Here is the link: http://www.mdwfp.com.../recordFish.pdf
#12 Guest_choupique_*
Posted 23 June 2009 - 09:43 AM
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