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Yellow Bass

Morone mississippiensis

Classification

Family
Moronidae

The yellow bass (Morone mississippiensis) is a freshwater ray-finned fish of the family Moronidae (temperate bass) native to the Mississippi River catchment of North America. Description The yellow bass is a deep bodied fish that possesses five to seven dark stripes laterally along the sides, the lowest few of these are often broken or disrupted anterior to the origin of the anal fin. It is somewhat similar to two other sister species in the genus Morone, the white bass and the striped bass, and is distinguishable from both of these species by having the offset lateral stripes above the…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 581