‘Merry Fishmas’ everyone! It’s been a hot minute, but I used to try and do something fishy every December on one platform or another. I thought I’d done enough fish for a while, but they reeled me back in, and how could I not? And just for fun, here’s probably the most ambitious one I ever did—I think the phylogeny still mostly holds up! Also, did you see that? The ‘reeled’ thing? […]

Bluegill, Pumpkinseed, Crappie (3″ Pond Fish set Part 2 by Replica Toy Fish)

And here we have the final trio of the original 3″ fish produced by Replica Toy fish, the second half from the ‘pond fish’ set. Similar to my look at the two halves of the American Angler set (here and here), the first Pond Fish set featured a range of taxonomic groups, and this second half will be all from a single family–Centrarchidae, the basses and sunfish. And yes, the first half of […]

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Bluegill Sunfish (Freshwater Fishes Book 2, second release by Yujin)

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This figure is the bluegill sunfish (or just bluegill), Lepomis macrochirus, model number 26 and figure number 11 from the second series. Sunfish are medium-sized relatives of the largemouth and smallmouth bass (Centrarchidae) that natural occurred in the US in many areas east of the Rocky Mountains (and no relation to the ocean sunfish Mola). […]

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