New Species

[ollie]

Bass found in just one US river officially named as new species

 

Looks like a smallie to me! It is cool though.

[Johnsfolly]

2 hours ago, ollie said:

Bass found in just one US river officially named as new species

 

Looks like a smallie to me! It is cool though.

All of the redeye bass subspecies that have now been upgraded to species level over the last several years look very similar to smallmouth bass. They like the Bartram's bass are found in distinct river systems in SC, GA, AL, etc. They are all genetically different from each other. I have been seeing this bass being reported and I believe that it was one of the subspecies at the time that made up the GA black bass slam.

[Al Agnew]

11 hours ago, ollie said:

Bass found in just one US river officially named as new species

 

Looks like a smallie to me! It is cool though.

Not really.  The thin dark lines of connected spots on the lower sides are never seen in pure smallmouth, but are found in spotted bass, Guadalupe bass, and all the new species that were once considered redeye bass.  The dark blotches actually look more like shoal bass.

[tjm]

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The species is included in both South Carolina’s and Georgia’s State Wildlife Action Plans.

That is much better than Mo. is doing with the Neosho bass,  i was told MDC will continue to treat it as a smallmouth. 

[Flysmallie]

7 minutes ago, tjm said:

That is much better than Mo. is doing with the Neosho bass,  i was told MDC will continue to treat it as a smallmouth. 

They are working on it but it's not a fast process. Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri are all working on it and meeting together. It's hard to manage something that's not easily distiguishable from something else. 

[tjm]

I can see that Ok. has a problem  with that,  but the drainages in Ar & Mo aren't supposed to contain any other similar species (yet!) so could easily be managed as a separate species, if they wanted to.