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Micropterus salmoides Lake Biwa Museum1🐟

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SpeciesPerciformesCentrarchidae
Fish

🐟Largemouth bass

Micropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802)

Micropterus salmoides, l'Achigan à grande bouche, aussi appelé Black-bass et parfois Perche truitée, Perche truite, Perche d'Amérique ou Perche noire, est une espèce de poissons d'eau douce de la famille des Centrarchidae vivant en Amérique du Nord, mais également introduite en Europe à la fin du XIXe siècle. C'est une espèce recherchée et élevée pour la pêche de loisir.

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≈ 1/11th of your weight
Also called
Black Bass, American Black Bass, large-mouth bass
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
5.53 kg
Body length
0.4 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
23 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Largemouth bass

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
5.53 kgrecord 10 kg · FishBase
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
0.4 mrecord 0.97 m · FishBasetypical adult
FishBase
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
23 yearsrecord 23 years · FishBase
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
3.84
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.84 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
potential pest
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
5.5 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Largemouth bass yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyCentrarchidae
  5. ›genusMicropterus
  6. ›speciesMicropterus salmoides
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. superfamilyCentrarchoidei
  3. familyCentrarchidae
  4. genusMicropterus
All 13 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderAcanthomorphata
  10. orderCentrarchiformes
  11. superfamilyCentrarchoidei
  12. familyCentrarchidae
  13. genusMicropterus
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okounek pstruhový (cs), isobassi (fi), Achigan à grande bouche (fr), Lakseabbor (nb), Forelbaars (nl), 大口黑鱸 (zh) … and 21 more languages

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