Fish identification

[Whos_Jonathan]

I recently fished a peculiar fish out of a pond near my house. I’m not a hundred percent sure what it is. I think it’s a pumpkin seed, half of its tail is black so I put it in my mollie tank.

 

[Lajos_Detari]

Is it a local fish or fish from your LFS(Local Fish Store)?
The mix of color makes it hard to be identified.
The face looks like some Central America fish or even the Jewel Cichlid(African fish).

 

[PorshaF]

Kind of looks like a green sunfish to me. Maybe the black is breeding colors?

 

[Colin_T]

a type of sunfish, native to your local water ways

 

[Ichthys]

Certainly one of the sunfish spp. The black looks like neurological damage (to the nerve endings supplying the melanophores (pigment cells)). Possibly caused by a localised infection.

 

[hywaydave]

I agree with PorshaF, that looks like a green sunfish to me too but I've never seen a native sunfish with half of it's body all black. Very unique and really cool as long as that doesn't mean something is wrong with it.