Much like the sunfishesin anatomy, though more like the white perch in appearance and habit, are the members of the little family of Kuhliidæ.
Plioplarchus is a genus of fossil sunfishes from the Eocene of South Dakota and Oregon.
In somesunfishes there are three little patches, the vomer in the middle and the palatines on either side.
Here we will catch sunfishes of certain species, or maybe rock bass or catfish: any of these will do for our purpose.
Thus series of maps could be drawn representing those parts of North America in which catfishes or trout or sunfishes are found in the streams.
It represents the blue-green sunfish, Apomotis cyanellus, from the Kansas River, but in these regards all the species of sunfishes are alike.
In the upland streams are darters, shiners, suckers, sunfishesand small-mouthed black bass.
By the same process of 'analogous variation' the cichlids of South America parallel the sunfishes of the United States, although in structure and in origin the two groups are diverse.
A large portion will consist of sunfishes and very small, perch-like fishes, which are called darters.
Minnows, darters, suckers and sunfishes are found in lowland, upland and mountain streams, though not the same species in each.
Its habits are similar to those of the other sunfishes proper, as to food, spawning, etc.
It is one of the handsomest sunfishes in its brilliant coloration, and a great favorite with the youthful Waltonians of the Mississippi Valley.
They hold about the same relation to the more important game-fishes of the coast that the sunfishes do to the black-bass, trout, pike, etc.
There are quite a number of other sunfishes belonging to this family, but those named are the most important.
Its habits of spawning, nest-making, and care of eggs and fry are similar to those of the othersunfishes mentioned.
Sunfishes do the same, but the nests are clumsier and not so well cared for.
Unlike the sunfishes and darters are the catfishes, composing a great family, the Siluridae.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sunfishes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
