sunfishes

Freshwater pond swimmers

Sunfishes are freshwater fish of the family Centrarchidae, native to North America.

The group includes bass, bluegill, and crappie—popular targets for recreational fishing.

Separately, the ocean sunfish (family Molidae) is a massive, disc-shaped marine fish that basks at the surface: We spotted a sunfish while sailing.

freshwater

bluegill

Small freshwater sunfish

pond · lake · panfish · spawning · nest · bedding · angler · lure · bait · catch

ocean

mola

Giant oceanic fish

basking · dorsal · bizarre · massive · jellyfish · drifting · surface · Pacific · Atlantic · plankton

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habitat type

sunfishessaltwater fish

Ocean-dwelling aquatic vertebrate

marine fish · deep-sea fish · sharks · saltwater · tuna

body form and locomotion

sunfisheseels

Snakelike aquatic creatures

moray eels · sharks · great white shark · lampreys · hagfish

predatory status

sunfishessharks

Large predatory fish

great white shark · barracuda · pike · muskellunge · grouper

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