Alabama bass
| Alabama bass | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Centrarchidae |
| Genus: | Micropterus |
| Species: | M. henshalli
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| Micropterus henshalli | |
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| Distribution map of the Alabama bass. Yellow represents native and purple represents where it has been introduced. | |
Micropterus henshalli, the Alabama bass, is a medium-sized freshwater ray finned fish, a black bass from the genus Micropterus which is part of the sunfish family Centrarchidae.[2] This species is endemic to the southeastern United States where it is native to the rivers which drain into Mobile Bay in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia where they are found in pools in rivers which have a good flow and in impoundments. They have been introduced elsewhere in the United States and the hybridisation of this species with the redeye bass after Alabama bass were introduced into Keowee Reservoir, South Carolina is thought to have probably been the cause in the decline in the population of redeye bass.[3] Micropterus henshalli was first formally described as a subspecies of the spotted bass (M. punctulatus) by Carl Leavitt Hubbs and Reeve Maclaren Bailey in 1940 with the type locality given as Jefferson County, Alabama. The specific name honors James L. Henshall who was a bass angler.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ NatureServe (2013). "Micropterus henshalli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T15351329A19035171. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T15351329A19035171.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "mictopters henshalli" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ^ Benson, A.J. (17 June 2019). "Micropterus henshalli Hubbs and Bailey, 1940". Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL. U.S. Geological Survey.
- ^ Winston H. Baker; Carol E. Johnston & George W. Folkerts (2008). "The Alabama Bass, Micropterus henshalli (Teleostei: Centrarchidae), from the Mobile River basin". Zootaxa. 1861: 57–67.
- Micropterus henshalli Hubbs & Bailey, 1940 FishBase
- Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 2011. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 663p.