Morphological Models for Identifying Largemouth Bass, Spotted Bass, and Largemouth Bass × Spotted Bass Hybrids

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Author	Godbout, Jason D. Aday, D. Derek Rice, James A. Bangs, Max R. Quattro, Joseph M.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Abstract Hybridization is common among many closely related fishes, such as the largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides and spotted bass M. punctulatus. Although these species are common members of the sport fish community in midwestern and southeastern U.S. reservoirs, fairly little is known about their ecological interactions or the potential for the introduction of one species to influence the other species. To address these ecological questions and develop appropriate management strategies, reliable field and laboratory identification of each parental species and their hybrid is required. To that end, we collected juvenile (n = 60) and adult (n = 78) largemouth bass, spotted bass, and largemouth bass × spotted bass hybrids from Lake Norman, North Carolina, a system with a historically strong largemouth bass fishery that recently experienced a spotted bass introduction. We recorded a suite of morphological traits on each individual and correlated those observations with DNA sequences from one mitochondri...
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DOI	10.1577/M08-253.1
Volume Number	29
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Language	English
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