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  • noun Plural form of sunfish.

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Examples

  • Common fishes include minnows, darters, and sunfishes.

    Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA) 2009

  • Whitefish, Arctic char, threespine stickleback and some sunfishes display quite discrete groups living in the same lakes but utilizing different food resources in order to survive.

    May 23rd, 2007 2007

  • Fish communities in least altered streams typically have an insignificant proportion of sensitive species; sunfishes are dominant followed by minnows.

    Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA) 2008

  • Fish communities typically have a limited proportion of sensitive species; sunfishes are dominant, and darters and minnows are common.

    Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA) 2008

  • Fish communities are mostly composed of sensitive species; a diverse, often darter-dominated community occurs along with nearly equal proportions of minnows and sunfishes.

    Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA) 2008

  • Fish communities characteristically have a preponderance of sensitive species and are usually dominated by a diverse minnow community along with sunfishes and darters.

    Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA) 2008

  • Longnose gar, striped bass, several catfishes and various sunfishes occur only in the tidal freshwater and brackish areas.

    North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina 2007

  • The present fish fauna of Willow Creek Reservoir consists mainly of nonnative warm-water species, such as sunfishes and catfishes among anglers, the reservoir is noted for its crappie fishing.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The first fishes I caught on crude, hand-me-down tackle were sunfishes and yellow perch.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The present fish fauna of Willow Creek Reservoir consists mainly of nonnative warm-water species, such as sunfishes and catfishes among anglers, the reservoir is noted for its crappie fishing.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

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