#2286 · 🐟 fish

Warmouth

Lepomis gulosus

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © beautifulbait · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Ty Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Mitchel Buckner · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Koaw Nature · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Kenneth Manole · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Emilio Concari · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Nick Tobler (Cowturtle) · CC BY 4.0
8. © sisor · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © shmavin · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Quinn · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The warmouth , warmouth sunfish , or warmouth bass , ( Lepomis gulosus ), is a large sunfish found throughout the eastern United States. Other local names include molly, redeye, goggle-eye, red-eyed bream, stump knocker, and strawberry perch. Despite a passing, superficial similarity in appearance, the warmouth should not be confused with its distant relative the rock bass.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,144iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
6,144 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Georges Cuvier in 1829 (197 years ago).