Mud sunfish
| Mud sunfish | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Centrarchiformes |
| Family: | Centrarchidae |
| Subfamily: | Centrarchinae |
| Genus: | Acantharchus T. N. Gill, 1864 |
| Species: | A. pomotis |
| Binomial name | |
| Acantharchus pomotis (S. F. Baird, 1855) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Centrarchus pomotis Baird, 1855 | |
The mud sunfish (Acantharchus pomotis) is a freshwater ray-finned fish, a sunfish from the family Centrarchidae, which widely distributed in the fresh waters along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from New York to Alabama. It is the only species in the genus Acantharchus.