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Morone mississippiensis (Barfish; Bass; Yellow bass)

Synonyms: Morone interrupta (heterotypic)
Language: Danish; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow bass (Morone mississippiensis) or barfish, is a species of temperate bass native to the south and midwestern United States. It is an inhabitant of lakes, ponds and areas of large rivers with reduced current such as backwaters and pools. This species can reach a length of 46 centimetres (18 in) TL though most are only around 23.9 centimetres (9.4 in). The greatest recorded weight for a specimen of this species is 2.95 pounds (1.34 kg) and was caught at Morse Reservoir in Indiana. This species is sought after as a game fish.
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  18 inches (46 cm)
Brood Dispersal [1]  In the open
Brood Egg Substrate [1]  Phyto-lithophils
Brood Guarder [1]  No
Litter Size [1]  165,000
Maximum Longevity [1]  6 years
Adult Weight [2]  13.338 lbs (6.05 kg)
Diet [3]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [1]  3 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Cyprinodon variegatus (sheepshead minnow)[4]
Gobiosoma bosc (Naked goby)[4]
Micropogonias undulatus (Atlantic croacker)[4]
Poecilia latipinna (Sailfin molly)[4]
Rhithropanopeus harrisii (estuarine mud crab)[4]

Predators

Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Onchocleidus interruptus[5]
Proteocephalus ambloplitis[5]
Thometrema lotzi[5]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, 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.
♦ 2de 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
♦ 3Myers, 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
♦ 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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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