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Rock bass
Stout and heavy in comparison to the sunfishes and crappies, the rock bass has red eyes and brassy flanks with black spots. A large rock bass measures about 10 inches and weighs about a pound.
Other Names Goggle-eye, Rock Bass, Branch Perch Description The green sunfish, like warmouth, has a large mouth and a heavy, black bass body shape.
Common eastern varieties are the rock bass, the bluegill and green sunfishes, and the long-eared and common, or pumpkinseed, sunfishes, brilliantly colored with bright orange bellies.
The largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), smallmouth bass (M. dolomieu), spotted bass (M. punctulatus), and rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris) belong to the sunfish family, Centrarchidae.
Young have much less colour pattern and only green to olive background colour. There are five species of sunfish; the redbreast, green, bluegill, longear and the pumpkinseed. They are closely related to the rock bass and, ...
 See also: Sunfish, Bass, Perch, Black bass, Warmouth
  
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