#2166 · 🐟 fish

Largemouth Bass

Micropterus nigricans

🐟 Fish 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The largemouth bass ( Micropterus nigricans ) is a carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico. It is known by a variety of regional names, such as the widemouth bass , bigmouth bass , black bass , bucketmouth , largie , Potter's fish , Florida bass , Florida largemouth , green bass , bucketmouth bass , green trout , Gilsdorf bass , Oswego bass , LMB , and southern largemouth and northern largemouth .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 45,236iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
45,236 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.