Sunfish
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Several kinds of things are named "sunfish" (or "sun-fish"):
- A class of sailboat
- Various fishes:
- * Marine fishes:
- ** The Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola)
- ** The Oblong Sunfish (Ranzania laevis)
- ** Opah (family Lampridae; two species)
- ** The moonfishes of genus Selene (order Perciformes)
- ** The African pompano (Alectis ciliaris) (order Perciformes)
- ** The spotted eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari), a ray (order Rajiformes)
- * Freshwater fishes:
- ** In a technical sense, all members of family Centrarchidae (order Perciformes)
- ** The various species of genus Lepomis in that family, especially the bluegill and pumpkinseed
- ** A number of similar-looking Perciformes of other families, including the pygmy sunfishes
includes the members of family Centrarchidae.
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