Pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus)

General data
- Main name: Pumpkinseed
- Local names: Pond perch, Punkie, Sunfish, Sunny, Kivver
- Climates: Subtropical, Temperate, Continental, Mountain
- Habitat: Freshwater
- Native: North America
- Introduced: Europe, Asia
- Distribution: Danube, Ebro, Bojana, Struma (Strymonas), Vardar (Axios), Pineios (Thessaly), View all... Lake Skadar, Nestos, Rhine, Meuse (Maas), Rhone, Dnieper, Mississippi River, Missouri River, Lake Volvi, Oder, Arno, Loire, Colorado (Texas), Seine, Klamath River, Delaware River, Connecticut River, Savannah river, Garonne, Guadiana, Guadalquivir, Kamchiya, Santee River, Lake Washington
Classification
- Genus: Lepomis - Sunfishes
- Family: Centrarchidae - Sunfishes
- Order: Centrarchiformes - Basses and sunfishes
- Class: Teleostei - Ray-finned fishes
- Superclass: Osteichthyes - Bony fishes
Description
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)