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Florida Bass

Micropterus salmoides

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Pennsylvania.January 2,011, February 2,402, March 2,980, April 4,765, May 7,307, June 3,617, July 2,666, August 2,502, September 3,035, October 2,741, November 1,976, December 1,938.
United States220,681
Pennsylvania37,940
Texas31,926
Canada29,713
Ontario29,306
New York21,871
Minnesota18,590
Georgia13,188
Oklahoma8,604
New Jersey7,854

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • AquaticLives primarily in waterFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumChordates · Chordata
ClassRay-finned Fishes · Actinopterygii
OrderFreshwater Sunfishes, Grunters, and Allies · Centrarchiformes
FamilyFreshwater Sunfishes · Centrarchidae
GenusBlack Basses · Micropterus

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