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Black-banded Sunfish

Enneacanthus chaetodon

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in New Jersey.January 14, February 14, March 16, April 28, May 49, June 17, July 14, August 17, September 23, October 26, November 14, December 13.
United States945
New Jersey246
North Carolina230
South Carolina201
Delaware60
Maryland56
Georgia53
Pennsylvania26
Virginia10

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • AquaticLives primarily in waterFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumChordates · Chordata
ClassRay-finned Fishes · Actinopterygii
OrderFreshwater Sunfishes, Grunters, and Allies · Centrarchiformes
FamilyFreshwater Sunfishes · Centrarchidae
GenusBanded Sunfishes · Enneacanthus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Black-banded Sunfish with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.