Pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus)
General data
- Main name: Pumpkinseed
- Local names: Punkie, Sunfish, Sunny, Kivver, Pumkinseed, Common sunfish
- Climates: Subtropical, Temperate, Continental, Mountain
- Habitat: Freshwater
- Native: North America
- Introduced: Europe, Asia
- Distribution: Danube, Ebro, Struma (Strymonas), Vardar (Axios), Pineios (Thessaly), Nestos, View all... Rhine, Meuse (Maas), Rhone, Dnieper, Missouri River, Lake Volvi, Oder, Arno, Loire, Seine, Klamath River, Connecticut River, Savannah river, Garonne, Guadiana, Guadalquivir, Kamchiya, Lake Washington, Lake Skadar, Colorado River (Texas), Neretva, Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River, Po River, Bojana, Mississippi River, Santee River, Delaware River
Classification
- Genus: Lepomis - Sunfishes
- Family: Centrarchidae - Sunfishes
- Order: Centrarchiformes - Basses and sunfishes
- Class: Actinopteri - Ray-finned fishes
- Superclass: Osteichthyes - Bony fishes
The pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus), also referred to as pond perch, common sunfish, punkie, sunfish, sunny, and kivver, is a small/medium-sized North American freshwater fish of the genus Lepomis (true sunfishes)