Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Centrarchidae > Ambloplites > Ambloplites rupestrisAmbloplites rupestris (Rock bass; Redeye bass; Redeye; Northern rock bass; Goggle eye)Synonyms: Ambloplites rupestris rupestris; Bodianus rupestris (homotypic); Centrarchus pentacanthus; Cichla aenea; Icthelis enythrops; Lepomis ictheloides Language: Danish; Finnish; French; German; Mandarin Chinese; Polish; Portuguese; Russian; Spanish; Swedish The rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris), also known as the rock perch, goggle-eye, red eye, is a fresh water fish native to east-central North America. This red eyed creature is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) of order Perciformes and can be distinguished from other similar species by the six spines in the anal fin (other sunfish have only three anal fin spines). |
| Adult Length [2] | 17 inches (43 cm) | | Brood Dispersal [2] | In a nest | | Brood Egg Substrate [2] | Polyphils | | Brood Guarder [2] | Yes | | Litter Size [2] | 11,000 | | Maximum Longevity [2] | 18 years | | Water Biome [1] | Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams |  | | Adult Weight [3] | 1.817 lbs (824 g) | | | Diet [1] | Carnivore | | | Female Maturity [2] | 3 years |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Alaska & Canada Pacific Coastal |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Appalachian Piedmont |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Central Prairie |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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Chesapeake Bay |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Columbia Unglaciated |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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East Texas Gulf |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Middle Missouri |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Northeast US & Southeast Canada Atlantic Drainages |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Ouachita Highlands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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Ozark Highlands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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Pecos |
United States |
Nearctic |
Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins |
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St. Lawrence |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Teays - Old Ohio |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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Upper Missouri |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Algonquin Provincial Park |
IV |
1868802 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Bandelier National Monument |
V |
8107 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Bruce Peninsula National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Reserve |
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9859505 |
New York, Vermont, United States |
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Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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North Carolina, United States |
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Fathom Five National Marine Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Gauley River National Recreation Area |
V |
10157 |
West Virginia, United States |
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Georgian Bay Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Gettysburg National Military Park |
V |
3560 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park |
VI |
715 |
West Virginia, United States |
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Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site |
III |
861 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
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Horseshoe Bend National Military Park |
V |
1926 |
Alabama, United States |
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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore |
II |
8272 |
Indiana, United States |
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La Mauricie National Park |
II |
131706 |
Quebec, Canada |
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Land Between the Lakes Biosphere Reserve |
V |
166264 |
Kentucky, Tennessee, United States |
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Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve (Natn'l Park) National Park |
II |
51235 |
Kentucky, United States |
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New Jersey Pinelands Biosphere Reserve |
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New Jersey, United States |
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New River Gorge National River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
55591 |
West Virginia, United States |
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Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve |
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470167 |
Ontario, Canada |
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North Temperate Lakes LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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Wisconsin, United States |
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Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park |
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20001 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Obed Wild and Scenic River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
5268 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore |
II |
67888 |
Michigan, United States |
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Roosevelt Vanderbilt National Historic Site |
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New York, United States |
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Saint Croix International Historic Site |
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Maine, United States |
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Saint Lawrence Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Shenandoah National Park |
II |
108221 |
Virginia, United States |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Upper Miss. River Nat'l Wildlife Refuge National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
25823 |
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, United States |
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Valley Forge National Historical Park |
VI |
3509 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
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Voyageurs National Park |
II |
177960 |
Minnesota, United States |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495. ♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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