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Green-Longear Hybrid?

Started by Guest_edbihary_* , Dec 18 2006 01:22 AM

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#1 Guest_edbihary_*

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Posted 18 December 2006 - 01:22 AM

This came from the recent Ohio collecting trip. Paint Creek. I thought it was a longear at first. But it is longer proportionally, seems to have a bit of white fringe, and the shine of a green. Not much ear, either. What do you think? (You too, Irate!)

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#2 Guest_smbass_*

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Posted 18 December 2006 - 01:28 AM

I'm prety sure thats just a true green sunfish, I put it in your pucket last weekend so I saw it in person not just the fuzzy picture. There was definately one green sunfish that i put in the bucket you had the rest were longears.

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#3 Guest_bearskookums_*

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Posted 18 December 2006 - 01:28 AM

The white fringe on the anal fin looks like a greenie...and the shape of its snout and lips too...I can also see some narrow vertical bars that are present in a green sunfish...

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#4 Guest_edbihary_*

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Posted 18 December 2006 - 01:38 AM

I'm prety sure thats just a true green sunfish, I put it in your pucket last weekend so I saw it in person not just the fuzzy picture. There was definately one green sunfish that i put in the bucket you had the rest were longears.

Now why'd you do that? I don't need anymore greens. It has the color of a longear, though. I don't want to make Martin mad, but I still think it's a hybrid. I could be wrong. But it's got longear color.

You're right about the fuzzy pic. I need a better camera. It does not do close-up well. Normal shots, great, close-up, not so great.

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#5 Guest_Brooklamprey_*

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Posted 18 December 2006 - 02:25 AM

Even with the fuzzy pic it looks rather like a typical green. A little more vibrant color but still a rather normal green.

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#6 Guest_dsmith73_*

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Posted 18 December 2006 - 06:29 AM

Looks all green to me as well.

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#7 Guest_fundulus_*

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Posted 18 December 2006 - 08:55 AM

Just another green in the crowd.

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#8 Guest_drewish_*

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Posted 18 December 2006 - 11:12 AM

Something I've learned recently is that you can't go by color exclusively. It has all the right characteristics of a green.

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#9 Guest_itsme_*

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Posted 18 December 2006 - 12:07 PM

Maybe you can get a better shot that shows whether it has much orange on it and whether the vermiculations are different from most cyanellus.

Other than that, it looks like a green to me. There is quite a bit of variation in that species from place to place. Some are very dull and others very bright. Some with much more blue than others.

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#10 Guest_Irate Mormon_*

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Posted 18 December 2006 - 10:31 PM

It's a green, Damnit! GREEN GREEN GREEN! Now see, you've gone and made me mad again [-X

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#11 Guest_itsme_*

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Posted 19 December 2006 - 12:07 AM

It's a green, Damnit! GREEN GREEN GREEN! Now see, you've gone and made me mad again

Well, I just don't know. It could be the offspring of a hybrid parent! What if the dad was a cyanellus x megalotis and the mom was a full blood cyanellus? That would make something that looked mostly like a cyanellus, with some megalotis flavor. Did you ever think about that? Huh? Huh?! It could happen! I've caught fish just like that all over the country, no, all over the WORLD! The WORLD I tell ya! THE WORLD!!! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! THE WORLD!!!

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#12 Guest_Irate Mormon_*

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Posted 19 December 2006 - 05:24 PM

Well, I just don't know. It could be the offspring of a hybrid parent!

Well, that's just the last STRAW! Kalifornia (People's Republic of), here I COME! I'm gonna settle this once and for all, in PERSON!!

Hey, you got a couple of dollars ($) I can hold 'til next week?

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#13 Guest_edbihary_*

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Posted 20 December 2006 - 02:44 AM

Okay. I hear what you guys are saying (or I read it anyway). But what bugs me is, it appears to have longear coloration, the white fringe is the thinnest white fringe I have ever seen on a green, and there are no black blotches on the dorsal or anal fins. I looked at it closely, and it does have the tiny pepper spots of a green, in addition to what's mentioned above. But I can't help but think this fish has got to have some longear in it.

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#14 Guest_choupique_*

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Posted 21 December 2006 - 01:26 AM

That is a green sunfish. Young green sunfish often have tons of coloration, which almost always fades with age and size. I have caught little ones and was so excited I had something new. Almost pure turquoise with red fins. As they grew the turquoise stayed the same amount, and the rest of the area filled in with the typical green color, the red fins faded away too.

I have had a few big greens with tons of turquoise spangles and big blue spots on the fins too. I call these blue phase greens.

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#15 Guest_sandtiger_*

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Posted 26 December 2006 - 03:52 PM

Looks like a pure green sunfish IMO. Though I have only seen one live juvi green in person I agree with choupique, the little one that I had was a very colorful fish.