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Moronidae
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Other Physical Features: bilateral symmetry
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Perception Channels: tactile ; chemical
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:198
Specimens with Sequences:171
Specimens with Barcodes:147
Species:7
Species With Barcodes:7
Public Records:66
Public Species:6
Public BINs:7
The Moronidae, the temperate basses, are a family of perciform fishes consisting of at least six freshwater, brackish water, and marine species. The members of this family are most commonly found near the coastal regions of eastern North America (including the Gulf of Mexico), northern Africa and Europe.[2] The family includes the genera Morone and Dicentrarchus.
Asian seabasses, Lateolabrax spp., are sometimes[2] placed in this family instead of their own family Lateolabracidae; this would increase the species number of this family to eight.
They are highly prized as sport fish.
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References[edit]
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Moronidae" in FishBase. December 2013 version.
- ^ a b Nelson, J. S. (2006). Fishes of the World (4 ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-25031-9.
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