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Florida Largemouth Bass

Micropterus floridanus

Classification

The Florida bass (Micropterus salmoides floridanus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a black bass belonging to the sunfish family Centrarchidae of order Centrarchiformes. It is found in the southeastern United States. Taxonomy The Florida bass was first formally described in 1822 as Cichla floridana by the French naturalist Charles Alexandre Lesueur with the type locality given as Eastern Florida.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 82