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Centrarchidae
rock bass
Ambloplites rupestris
Hunting insects and crustaceans among rocky weeds
- Tropical
- Northern Hemisphere
- Transcontinental
- Freshwater fish
- Europe
- North America
- West Asia
- Deep-bodied
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Freshwater fish
Europe
Deep-bodied
Mediumrock bass is known from North America as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Centrarchidae
- Genus
- Ambloplites
- Maximum length
- 43 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- North America: St. Lawrence River-Great Lakes, Hudson Bay (Red River), and Mississippi River basins from Quebec to Saskatchewan in Canada, and south to northern Georgia, northern Alabama and Missouri (native only to Meramec River) in the USA (Ref. 86798 ). Introduced to Europe (Ref. 59043 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
