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Mud Sunfish

Acantharchus pomotis

Classification

The mud sunfish (Acantharchus pomotis) is a freshwater ray-finned fish, a sunfish from the family Centrarchidae, which widely distributed in the fresh waters along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from New York to Alabama. It is the only species in the genus Acantharchus. Taxonomy The mud sunfish was first formally described as Centrarchus pomotis by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1855 with the type locality given as Cedar Swamp Creek in, Beesley's Point, New Jersey and the Hackensack River in Rockland County, New York.

Distribution

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United States of America · 280