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title: "Largemouth Bass"
description: "Micropterus nigricans — 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/largemouth-bass
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Largemouth Bass

> Micropterus nigricans — 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 nigricans*
- Category: `fish` (Fish)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lakes & rivers)
- iNaturalist observations: 44244
- iNaturalist taxon: [1439808](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1439808)

## Names

- en: Largemouth Bass
- de: Forellenbarsch
- es: Lobina negra
- fr: Achigan à grande bouche

## Countries with the most observations

US (34116), CA (3264), MX (449), IT (357), PT (345), FR (247), ZA (219), ES (211), JP (174), CN (147), KR (75), TW (51)

## 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

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

Photo: Brady Reed · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/12368764

## Machine access

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