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Common names: Warmouth
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: gamefish: yes;
Comments: Recorded from Mississippi River and Great Lakes basins, and in Atlantic and Gulf coastal drainages, above and below the Fall Line, from Chesapeake Bay through the Rio Grande (Ref. 10294). Introduced elsewhere, including lower Colorado River drainage, where common. Common in lowlands areas; uncommon in uplands. Considered an excellent small sport fish in the country (Ref. 52559).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 1991
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Centrarchiformes (Basses) > Centrarchidae (Sunfishes)
Etymology: Lepomis: Greek, lepis = scaled + Greek, poma = gill cover, operculum (Ref. 45335, 79012); gulosus: Lepomis (Greek)=scaled gill cover; gulosus (Latin)=large-mouthed (Ref. 79012).
More on author: Cuvier.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; demersal; pH range: 7.0 - 7.5; dH range: 10 - 20. Temperate; 10°C - 20°C (Ref. 13371); 46°N - 26°N

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North America: Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins from western Pennsylvania to Minnesota in the USA, and south to the Gulf of Mexico; Atlantic and Gulf drainages from Rappahannock River in Virginia to Rio Grande in Texas and New Mexico, USA.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 31.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 5723); max. published weight: 1.1 kg (Ref. 4699)

Adults are usually found over mud in vegetated lakes, ponds, swamps and quiet water areas of streams.

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Males guard the eggs for 5 to 6 days (Ref. 93240).

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Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea and W.B. Scott, 1991. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. (20):183 p. (Ref. 3814)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 20 February 2019

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Aquaculture: commercial; gamefish: yes

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5001 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01479 (0.00933 - 0.02344), b=3.12 (2.99 - 3.25), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.4 ±0.50 se; based on food items.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (21 of 100).

Lepomis gulosus (Cuvier, 1829)