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Micropterus salmoides Lake Biwa Museum1🐟

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SpeciesPerciformesCentrarchidae
Fish

🐟Largemouth bass

Micropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802)

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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.

Where it sits

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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