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Ambloplites ariommus Viosca, 1936

Description

Common Names

  • Skyggebass , Danish , Denmark
  • Shadow bass , English , USA
  • 阴影钝鲈 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 陰影鈍鱸 , Mandarin Chinese , China

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Centrarchiformes

    Family: Centrarchidae

    Genus: Ambloplites

    Species: Ambloplites ariommus Viosca, 1936

    Climate Zone

  • Subtropical

    • Location

  • North America: Gulf Slope from Apalachicola River drainage in Georgia to lower Mississippi River basin in Louisiana in the USA; St, Francis, Black, Arkansas, Red and upper Ouachita River drainage in Missouri and Arkansas in the USA.

    • Biology

    Inhabits brushy and vegetated, gravel-bottomed, sand-bottomed and mud-bottomed pools of creeks and small to medium rivers (Ref. 5723, 10294). Feeds on small fish (darters, madtoms, minnows), crayfish, and larger insects including dragonfly, mayfly, and stonefly nymphs (Ref. 10294).

    Habitat

    demersal