单词 | mud sunfish |
释义 | mud sunfishn. a. A North American sunfish, Acantharchus pomotis (family Centrarchidae), with a striped green and brown body. ΚΠ 1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 102 Professor S. F. Baird..discovered..three fresh-water percoids, the Banded Sunfish (Bryttus choetodon), the Spotted Olive Sunfish (Bryttus obesos), and the Mud Sunfish (Ambloplites pomotis). 1877 J. B. Holder Hist. Amer. Fauna in J. Richardson et al. Museum Nat. Hist. III. p. cclvii/1 Acantharcus is represented by the Mud Sun-fish (A. pomotis..), found in muddy streams. 1989 Copeia i. 129/1 The mud sunfish, Acantharchus pomotis, is a small, secretive centrarchid that inhabits sluggish lowland streams, ponds and swamps along the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of the eastern United States. b. The warmouth, Lepomis gulosus; cf. mud bass n. (c) at mud n.1 Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Chaenobryttus warmouth1888 mud sunfish1902 1902 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Amer. Food & Game Fishes 342 Genus Chaenobryttus Gill. This genus has the general form and dentition of Ambloplites... The single species is the warmouth, mud sunfish, or Indian Fish, C. gulosus. 1985 A. Wheeler World Encycl. Fishes 232/3 It [sc. the warmouth] is a shallow-water species found on muddy bottoms in ponds, lakes, and slow-flowing lowland streams and is known locally as the mud sunfish. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1870 |
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