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Morone americana
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa
Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Moronidae (Temperate basses)
More on author: Gmelin.
More on author: Gmelin.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Marine; freshwater; brackish; benthopelagic; anadromous (Ref. 138280); depth range 0 - 10 m (Ref. 7251). Temperate; 10°C - 33°C (Ref. 121663); 50°N - 32°N, 96°W - 59°W
Distribution Territories | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri
North America: Atlantic Slope drainages from St. Lawrence drainage in Quebec, Canada south to Savannah River in Georgia, USA. Transplanted to Great Lakes (except Superior) and Ohio-Missouri-Mississippi river systems of mid-western USA; elsewere as far west as Colorado, USA.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 58.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 86798); common length : 13.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 12193); max. published weight: 2.7 kg (Ref. 120584); max. reported age: 16 years (Ref. 72462)
Max length : 58.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 86798); common length : 13.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 12193); max. published weight: 2.7 kg (Ref. 120584); max. reported age: 16 years (Ref. 72462)
Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.
Adults occur in fresh, brackish and coastal waters (Ref. 7251). They inhabit pools and other quiet-water areas of medium to large rivers, usually over mud (Ref. 86798). Neither anterolateral glandular groove nor venom gland is present (Ref. 57406).
Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Assuming same mode of reproduction as in M. saxatilis.
Main reference
Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Heemstra, Phillip C. | Collaborators
Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 2011. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 663p. (Ref. 86798)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 01 March 2012
CITES
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: minor commercial; gamefish: yes; aquarium: public aquariums
FAO - Fisheries: landings search; Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us
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Estimates based on models
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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5781 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
| Bayesian length-weight | a=0.00447 (0.00184 - 0.01082), b=3.13 (2.91 - 3.35), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
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Trophic level (Ref. 69278) |
3.1 ±0.35 se; based on food items. |
| Generation time | 15.0 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 2 growth studies. |
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Resilience (Ref. 120179) |
Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (K=0.07-0.13; tmax=7(?)). |
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Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153) |
High to very high vulnerability (69 of 100). 🛈 |
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Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649) |
Moderate to high vulnerability (52 of 100). 🛈 |
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Price category (Ref. 80766) |
Low. |
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Nutrients (Ref. 124155) |
Calcium = 21.2 [10.2, 55.0] mg/100g; Iron = 0.219 [0.101, 0.486] mg/100g; Protein = 17.4 [15.8, 19.0] %; Omega3 = 0.264 [0.103, 0.641] g/100g; Selenium = 9.81 [3.76, 23.71] μg/100g; VitaminA = 21.7 [4.7, 95.5] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.932 [0.573, 1.452] mg/100g (wet weight); |