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Definition of Morone interrupta
1. Noun. North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass.
Generic synonyms: Serranid, Serranid Fish
Group relationships: Genus Morone, Morone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Morone Interrupta
Literary usage of Morone interrupta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"Closely related to these are the yellow bass, morone interrupta, of the lower
Mississippi Valley, and the white perch, Morone americana, in salt and fresh ..."
2. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1890)
"Head, 3 in length ; depth, 3. D. IX, I, 12; A. Ill, 8 or III, 9. Scales, 8-50-9
AMERICANA, 115. 114. morone interrupta. (THE YELLOW BASS. ..."
3. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... Yellow Bass morone interrupta Gill americana, 377 This handsome fish is found
in the lower Mississippi Valley and north to St. Louis and Cincinnati. ..."
4. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"The yellow bass (morone interrupta), a coarser and more brassy fish, replaces it
farther south. It is seldom seen above Cincinnati and St. Louis. ..."
5. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"The "mooneye" which Mr. Scholer mentions is one or the other of the 2 MORONE
INTERRUPTA (Gill). YELLOW BASS. ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. bass, rockfish, or rock, ..."
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