Black bass and sunfish genera are the genera of the family Centrarchidae, which Animal Diversity Web labels sunfishes and lists with eight genera, while GBIF keeps nine ranked genera. Lepomis leads with about 53 descendant taxa and Micropterus follows with about 24, then Ambloplites with about 8, Enneacanthus and Pomoxis with about 6 each, and Acantharchus, Archoplites, Centrarchus and Chaenobryttus with fewer than three each. The family sits in the order Perciformes in the GBIF backbone.
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Black Bass and Sunfish Genera (Centrarchidae)
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Family Centrarchidae (Sunfishes)
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"canonicalName":"Micropterus","vernacularName":"black bass","authorship":"Lacepède, 1802","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Lacepède, B.G.E. (1802). Histoire naturelle des poissons: IV. chez Plassan: Paris, France. v. 4: i-xliv + 1-728, Pl. 1-16.","numDescendants":24
Children of Centrarchidae: Lepomis
"canonicalName":"Lepomis","vernacularName":"Common Sunfishes","authorship":"Rafinesque, 1819","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Rafinesque, C. S. (1819). Prodrome. De 70 nouveaux genres d'animaux découverts dans l'intérieur des Etats-Unis d'Amérique, durant l'année 1818. Journal de physique, de chimie, d'histoire naturelle et des arts. 88: 417-429.","numDescendants":53
Children of Centrarchidae: Ambloplites
"canonicalName":"Ambloplites","vernacularName":"Rock Basses","authorship":"Rafinesque, 1820","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Rafinesque, C.S. (1820). Ichthyologia Ohiensis [Part 3]. Western Rev. Misc. Mag. 2(1): 49-57.","numDescendants":8
Children of Centrarchidae: Enneacanthus
"canonicalName":"Enneacanthus","vernacularName":"Banded Sunfishes","authorship":"Gill, 1864","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Gill, T. N. 1864. Review of Holbrook’s Ichthyology of South Carolina. American Journal of Science and Arts, 2 37(art. 10): 89-94.","numDescendants":6
Children of Centrarchidae: Pomoxis
"canonicalName":"Pomoxis","vernacularName":"Crappies","authorship":"Rafinesque, 1818","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Rafinesque, C. S. (1818). Description of three new genera of fluviatile fish, Pomoxis, Sarchirus and Exoglossum. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. v. 1 (pt 2): 417-422, Pl. 17.","numDescendants":6
Children of Centrarchidae: Acantharchus
"canonicalName":"Acantharchus","vernacularName":"mud sunfishes","authorship":"Gill, 1864","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Gill, T. N. 1864. Review of Holbrook’s Ichthyology of South Carolina. American Journal of Science and Arts, 2 37(art. 10): 89-94.","numDescendants":2
Children of Centrarchidae: Archoplites
"canonicalName":"Archoplites","vernacularName":"Sacramento perches","authorship":"Gill, 1861","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Gill, T. N. 1861. Notes on some genera of fishes of the western coast of North America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 164-168.","numDescendants":2
Children of Centrarchidae: Centrarchus
"canonicalName":"Centrarchus","vernacularName":"Fliers","authorship":"Cuvier, 1829","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Cuvier, Georges. 1829. Le Règne Animal distribué d’après son organisation, pour servir de base à l’histoire naturelle des animaux et d’introduction à l’anatomie comparée. In: Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée, Nouvelle édition rev. et aug. (Cuvier & Latreille, ed.), Déterville & Cochard, Paris. Vol. 2, Edition 2: i-xviii, 1-532.","numDescendants":2
Children of Centrarchidae: Chaenobryttus
"canonicalName":"Chaenobryttus","authorship":"Hibbard, 1936","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":1
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Lepomis or true sunfish is a genus of North American freshwater fish from the family Centrarchidae in the order Centrarchiformes.
Micropterus - Wikipedia
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Micropterus is a genus of North American freshwater fish collectively known as the black bass, which belong to the sunfish family Centrarchidae of order Centrarchiformes.
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