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Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Perciformes
family
Centrarchidae
genus
Lepomis
species
Lepomis megalotis

Name

Synonyms
Icthelis aurita Rafinesque, 1820
Icthelis megalotis Rafinesque, 1820
Pomotis bombifrons Agassiz, 1854
Pomotis inscriptus Agassiz, 1854
Pomotis nitida Kirtland, 1840
Pomotis sanguinolentus Agassiz, 1854
Xenotis aureolus Jordan, 1877
Xenotis lythrochloris Jordan, 1877
Xenotis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)
Homonyms
Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)
Common names
Großohriger Sonnenbarsch in German
Langøret solaborre in Danish
Longear Sunfish in English
Longear Sunfish in English
Mojarra De Cuatro Cienegas in English
Mojarra del Sol in Spanish
Perca Sol Gigante in Spanish
Perca-sol-gigante in Portuguese
Ronguiyasanfisshu in Japanese
crapet à longues oreilles in French
crapet à longues oreilles in French
mojarra gigante in Spanish
mojarra gigante in Spanish
mojarra orejona in Spanish
mojarra orejona in Spanish
slunečnice královská in Czech
Длинноухий солнечник in Russian
ロングイヤーサンフィッシュ in Japanese
Longear Sunfish in English
ロングイヤーサンフィッシュ in Japanese
Mojarra De Cuatro Cienegas in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  2. Gilbert, Carter R., 1998: Type catalogue of Recent and fossil North American Freshwater fishes: families Cyprinidae, Catostomidae, Ictaluridae, Centrarchidae and Elassomatidae. Florida Museum of Natural History, Special Publication No. 1. 1-284.
  3. Kim, Daemin, Bruce H. Bauer, and Thomas J. Near, 2021: Introgression and Species Delimitation in the Longear Sunfish Lepomis megalotis (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Centrarchidae). Systematic Biology, syab029.
  4. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  5. Near, Thomas J., and James B. Koppelman, 2009: Species diversity, phylogeny and phylogeography of Centrarchidae. Centrarchid Fishes Diversity, Biology, and Conservation. 1-38.
  6. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
  7. Page, L. M., H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, R. N. Lea, N. E. Mandrak, et al., eds., 2013: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Seventh Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 34. ix + 384.
  8. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174.
  9. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183.
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