Sunfishes are generally found in deep pools or slow-moving runs, snags, or beneath undercut banks. They can be found in cool, gin-clear Mountain streams to warm and turbid Piedmont streams to low pH, tannin (tea)-colored Sand Hills and Coastal Plain streams. Sunfishes are found throughout our state from the Mountains to the Sand Hills to the Coastal Plain in reservoirs, creeks, large and small rivers, swamps, channelized streams, and permanent wetlands. Scientific Name/ American Fisheries Society Accepted Common NameĮnneacanthus chaetodon, Blackbanded SunfishĮnneacanthus gloriosus, Bluespotted Sunfish Marks (“) is a scientifically undescribed species. Species of sunfishes found in North Carolina.
But each species has its own scientific (Latin) name, which coincidentally actually means something (please refer to The Meanings of the Scientific Names of Sunfishes, pages 12-13), and an American Fisheries Society-accepted common name (Page et al. You might have heard people calling them Stumpknocker, Bream, Goggleye, Robin, Perch, Shellcracker, Bronzeback, Kentucky Bass, Welshman, Tinmouth, Sac-a-lait, or many other colloquial names.
There are 23 species of sunfishes in North Carolina (Table 1), including one undescribed species, “Bartram’s” Bass and one species, Redeye Bass, found in only the Hiwassee River basin (Tracy et al.
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