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title: "Florida Bass"
description: "Micropterus salmoides — Fish. 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."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/florida-bass
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Florida Bass

> Micropterus salmoides — Fish. 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.

- Scientific name: *Micropterus salmoides*
- Category: `fish` (Fish)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lakes & rivers)
- iNaturalist observations: 5323
- Wikidata: [Q755105](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q755105)
- iNaturalist taxon: [49587](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49587)

## Names

- en: Florida Bass
- de: Kleinmauliger schwarzbarsch
- es: Lobina de Florida
- fr: Black-bass à grande bouche
- nl: Forelbaars
- pt: Achigã
- pl: Bass wielkogębowy

## Countries with the most observations

US (4685)

## Summary

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, largie, potter's fish, Florida bass or Florida largemouth, green bass, bucketmouth bass, green trout, growler, Gilsdorf bass, Oswego bass, southern largemouth, northern largemouth, Alabama bass or Alabama largemouth, marsh bass, and swamp bass.
The largemouth bass, as it is known today, was first described…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largemouth_bass

## Photo

![Florida Bass](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/florida-bass/medium.jpg)

Photo: Liz F · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/332350939

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/florida-bass?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).