Green sunfish or Warmouth?

[DrAloha]

Can you please help ID this fish?  Memphis, TN 

[MN Fisher]

Looks more like a green to me.

[DitchPanda]

I would say that's a war mouth...green sunfish have a smaller mouth and usually have some blue lines on the face and cheeks. Also they normally have alot more orange coloration especially on the fins.

[DrAloha]

Here’s another from the same pond that I’m pretty sure is a green sunfish.  The one above just wasn’t as vibrant with the orange and was more spotted, but I caught it in the same place I catch a lot of greenies 

 

Maybe overly ambitious, but the TN state record for a green sunfish is only 1 lb 4 oz.  as far as state records go, I feel like this one might be attainable (especially given most anglers aren’t great at identifying green sunfish).  Is this a crazy goal? 

[Bluebasser86]

Top is a warmouth, bottom is a green sunfish. Top fish has the "war paint", stripes from the eye (3-5 dark stripes), bottom fish does not. 

[bulldog1935]

this photo is a green sunfish hen - the males have yellow belly, with red ear and fin tips - yes, the smiling young man's fish is a warmouth

 

This is my buddy's photo, and the best example I had.  

 

Another day I released a 13" green sunfish in metro Austin Bull Creek that would blow away the TX state record.  This was a small impoundment shared with a pod of bass to 10 lbs.  

 

This massive redbreast hen was in a headwaters oxbow she shared with a 5-lb bass.  

 

Green sunfish have the largest gill-to-body-mass, and will be the last fish in drought-dwindling ponds and isolated side pools.  

They're also very bad about stunting if no larger predators are there.  

Have literally caught them in rain puddles from pond overflow. 

 

@DrAloha

In W TN, I would think highway borrow pits shared with bass would be a great place to find a monster green.  This means something.  

You'll also have a hoot catching bass in a barrel.  

[Bankbeater]

Looks like a warmouth to me.

[Ratherbfishing]

You're all wrong.  Looks like a yellow-bellied snail-sucker to me.  

 

Warmouth.

 

[Fallser]

Here a couple of Green sunfish I caught out of a local quarry.  Coloration is a bit different than the one from Texas.