Eggs hatch in three or four days and fry rise from the nest and begin to feed five to eight days after hatching. The fry form a tight school that remains over the nest for four or five additional days. Facebook Twitter Email. Largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides.
Missouri Department of Conservation. The sunfish species is in different parts of our planet with various species being more prevelant in certain geographical areas. I believe archiologists have found bass fossils dating back many thousands of years.
In fact, there was a post on the Forum about the find. You may want to Google the proper scientific name for the bass you are interested in to try to locate a source for the age of the species.
Or see a local college biologist who may be able to give you some direction on finding your answer.
Micropterus salmoides is the largemouth version of the Black Bass, which of course, is not a true bass at all, but of the Sunfish family which includes bluegill, crappie etc. This is a really good question. As a little bit of a side note: It is very interesting how there was no "first" largemouth bass or smallmouth bass or any species.
Every largemouth bass had to have parents and those parents had to be of the same species as it. With the slow and gradual change of evolution you would have a pretty tough time saying when the first largmouth was on Earth even if you could see each generation. In the same way that you cannot say which day you stopped being a baby. There was no last day you were a baby or any first day you became a child.
There is just slow and gradual change. In the same way that we change slightly each day, species change slightly each generation. So if T9 says that they have been around for 3. To me, this gives me a further appreciation for the fish we catch.
It is great that we live in a time in history when we know how all the animals got to be the way they are. We are the only animal on Earth that have any clue to these types of questions. You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
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Page, J. Williams, Z. In February , Wake Forest University scientists led a study that calculated the elastic energy used by Largemouth bass that have gotten stranded onshore to work their way back to water. They compared Largemouth to other fish, hypothesizing that stiffness or curvature played a role in increasing elastic energy of fish tail jumps, and found that there was no difference between the amount of work stored in Largemouth bass spines and that in another fish species.
A study published in July by researchers at North Carolina State University measured mercury levels in eggs and muscle of female Largemouth bass to quantify the potential of the substance getting transferred to hatchling Largemouth. Scientists found that mercury in some of the eggs exceeded federal limits. In March , researchers with the University of California, Davis led a study looking into the effects of increased turbidity, as well as the introduction of an invasive weed, on Largemouth bass predation.
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