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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Ray-finned Fishes
  5. Freshwater Sunfishes, Grunters, and Allies
  6. Sunfishes
  7. Lepominae
  8. Black Basses

genus

Black Basses

Micropterus

Includes
14 native 1 introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Redeye Bass Complex 5 native
  • Spotted Bass Complex 4 native
  • Smallmouth Bass Complex 2 native
  • Largemouth Bass Complex 2 native
  • Shoal Bass presumed native
  • Suwannee Bass
  • Smallmouth × Spotted Bass
  • Smallmouth × Guadalupe Bass

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native black basses All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Largemouth Bass Micropterus nigricans 43,754 observations
  • Smallmouth Bass Micropterus dolomieu 19,764 observations
  • Florida Bass Micropterus salmoides 5,294 observations
  • Spotted Bass Micropterus punctulatus 2,279 observations
  • Guadalupe Bass Micropterus treculii 1,320 observations
  • Alabama Bass Micropterus henshalli 1,017 observations
  • Neosho Bass Micropterus velox 153 observations

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