Largemouth Bass
Micropterus nigricans
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 26,653
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
Description
The largemouth bass is a carnivorous, freshwater, ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico. It is known by a variety of regional names, such as the widemouth bass, bigmouth bass, black bass, largie, potter's fish, Florida bass or Florida largemouth, green bass, bucketmouth bass, green trout, growler, Gilsdorf bass, Oswego bass, southern largemouth, northern largemouth, Alabama bass or Alabama largemouth, marsh bass, and swamp bass.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Largemouth bass”.