Species: Ambloplites rupestris

Rock Bass

Species

Fishes

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Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Craniata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Centrarchidae

Genus

Ambloplites

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Source:
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Classification

Informal Taxonomy

Animals, Vertebrates - Fishes - Bony Fishes - Sunfishes and Freshwater Basses

Formal Taxonomy

Animalia - Craniata - Actinopterygii - Perciformes - Centrarchidae - Ambloplites - (Roe et al. 2008).

Ecology and Life History

Habitat Type Description

Freshwater

Migration

true - false - false

Non-migrant

true

Locally Migrant

false

Food Comments

Major foods are crayfish, aquatic and terrestrial insects, and fishes (Manooch 1984). Young eat cladocerans, chironomid and neuropteran larvae, and terrestrial insects. Adults take aquatic insects, crustaceans, mollusks, and small fishes (Sublette et al. 1990).

Reproduction Comments

Spawns in late spring and early summer; eggs hatch in 3-4 days at 20-21 C; sexually mature at age II-IV (Becker 1983, Scott and Crossman 1973).

Ecology Comments

Adults often aggregate.

Length

Conservation Status

NatureServe Global Status Rank

Global Status Last Reviewed

1996-09-23

Global Status Last Changed

1996-09-23

Distribution

Conservation Status Map

Global Range

GH - 200,000 to >2,500,000 square km (about 80,000 to >1,000,000 square miles) - GH - Native range encompasses St. Lawrence-Great Lakes, Hudson Bay (Red River), and Mississippi River basins, including most of the northeastern United States and adjacent southern Canada; south to Missouri, northern Alabama, and northern Georgia, west to Saskatchewan and the eastern Dakotas. Introduced in many places on Atlantic slope south to Roanoke River, Virginia, and west of native range in Missouri, Arkansas, northeastern Oklahoma, southeastern Kansas, and some western states (Lee et al. 1980, Page and Burr 2011).

Global Range Code

Global Range Description

200,000 to >2,500,000 square km (about 80,000 to >1,000,000 square miles)

ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.105635