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Genus of carnivorous fresh and salt water percoid fishes (family Serranidae) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Morone is a genus of temperate basses native to the Atlantic coast of North America and the freshwater systems of the midwestern and eastern United States.
Morone Temporal range: | |
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White bass (M. chrysops) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Moroniformes |
Family: | Moronidae |
Genus: | Morone Mitchill, 1814 |
Type species | |
Morone rufa Mitchill, 1814 | |
Synonyms | |
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The word morone is an archaic variation of "maroon".[2] American politician-naturalist Samuel Latham Mitchill (1764-1831) first coined the genus in 1814, describing all four species of "perch of New York" he included under the genus (only two of which still remain classified under the genus today) as having "ruddy", "scarlet", or "reddish, rusty and ochreous" fins.[3]
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[4]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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![]() | Morone americana (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) | white perch | fresh water and coastal areas from the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario south to the Pee Dee River in South Carolina, and as far east as Nova Scotia, lower Great Lakes, Finger Lakes, Long Island Sound and nearby coastal areas, Hudson and Mohawk River system, Delaware Bay and Chesapeake Bay. |
![]() | Morone chrysops (Rafinesque, 1820) | white bass | widely across the United States |
![]() | Morone mississippiensis D. S. Jordan & C. H. Eigenmann, 1887 | yellow bass | Mississippi River from Minnesota to Louisiana and may also be found in the Trinity River and the Tennessee River. |
![]() | Morone saxatilis (Walbaum, 1792) | striped bass | Atlantic coastline of North America from the St. Lawrence River into the Gulf of Mexico to approximately Louisiana. |
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