Morone

For people named Morone, see Morone (surname).

Morone Temporal range: Eocene to present[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
White bass (M. chrysops)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Acanthuriformes
Family:	Moronidae
Genus:	Morone Mitchill, 1814
Type species
Morone rufa Mitchill, 1814
Synonyms
Chrysoperca Fowler, 1907 Lepibema Rafinesque, 1820 Roccus Mitchill, 1814

Morone is a genus of temperate basses native to the Atlantic coast of North America and the freshwater systems of the midwestern and eastern United States.

Etymology

The word morone is an archaic variation of "maroon".[2] American politician-naturalist Samuel Latham Mitchill (1764-1831) first coined the genus in 1814, describing all four species of "perch of New York" he included under the genus (only two of which still remain classified under the genus today) as having "ruddy", "scarlet", or "reddish, rusty and ochreous" fins.[3]

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[4]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Morone americana (J. F. Gmelin, 1789)	white perch	fresh water and coastal areas from the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario south to the Pee Dee River in South Carolina, and as far east as Nova Scotia, lower Great Lakes, Finger Lakes, Long Island Sound and nearby coastal areas, Hudson and Mohawk River system, Delaware Bay and Chesapeake Bay.
	Morone chrysops (Rafinesque, 1820)	white bass	widely across the United States
	Morone mississippiensis D. S. Jordan & C. H. Eigenmann, 1887	yellow bass	Mississippi River from Minnesota to Louisiana and may also be found in the Trinity River and the Tennessee River.
	Morone saxatilis (Walbaum, 1792)	striped bass	Atlantic coastline of North America from the St. Lawrence River into the Gulf of Mexico to approximately Louisiana.

References

1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
2. Stormonth, James (1879). Phelp, Philip Henry (ed.). Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language (5 ed.). William Blackwood and sons. p. 371.
3. Scharpf, Christopher (2016-04-20). "The mystery of Morone: Solved at last?". The ETYFish Project. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
4. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Morone". FishBase. December 2013 version.