Bluegill are in the sunfish family, which is a rather common group of fishes. Some others are:
Largemouth bass
Smallmouth bass
Redear sunfish
Black crappie
White crappie
Warmouth
Pumpkinseed
Flier
Spotted bass
Coosa bass
Rock bass
Roanoke bass
Long ear sunfish
Yes, and many other local names.
The type of fish that were actually in Hatchet were bluegills, sunfish, and perch.
because they are blue
A Sunfish
A sunfisha sunfish
There is a variety of sunfish that are called pumpkinseed.from Wikipedia:"The pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) is a freshwater fish of the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) of order Perciformes. It is also referred to as pond perch, common sunfish, punkys, and sunny."
a small sunfish
The turtle in the book "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen was a snapping turtle. Brian, the main character, catches and eats the turtle as part of his survival in the wilderness.
In the US, various sunfish species are collectively called "bream". This comes from the European fish called bream. The species of sunfish called bream (pronounced "brim") are the bluegill, shellcracker, flier, pumpkinseed, green sunfish, warmouth, Roanoke bass, rock bass.
Ocean Sunfish MAINLY feed on jellyfish...But also feed on other SMALL fishes.
No- dolphins are bigger, and bluegills and dolphins do not live in the same place.
its nickname is saltwater fish and sometimes called sunny
no