'Great Golden speckled Bream' or
Shell-cracker Bream

$450.00

No. 10
Shell-cracked Bream : Lepomis microlophus (Gunther)
1774
205 x 324

In his description of this fish to Dr. Fothergill Bartram describes it of “beautiful
appearance in the clear water of the springs in E[as]t Florida, the sides of a light
yellow, speckled with brown, red and green, as it were powdered with gold and Silver.”
Report to Fothergill. Bartram names this fish The Great Golden Speckled Bream.