Largemouth bass
Micropterus salmoides
Kosher
Has fins and scales
Fins
Yes
Scales
Yes
Description
The largemouth bass is a carnivorous, freshwater, ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico. It is known by a variety of regional names, such as the widemouth bass, bigmouth bass, black bass, largie, potter's fish.
Largemouth bass is rated an excellent food fish with firm, edible meat, though it's valued more as a game fish than a commercial catch.
Largemouth bass are native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada, and northern Mexico. They favor shorelines with plenty of vegetation and keep relatively small home ranges in lakes.
Also known as
- Bigmouth Bass
- Bucketmouth Bass
- Green Trout
- Florida Bass
- Black Bass
Kosher Largemouth bass in foreign languages
| Scientific | Micropterus salmoides |
| Hebrew | בס גדול-לוע |
| Arabic | بلكبس |
| Spanish | Blackbass |
| Portuguese | Achigã |
| French | black bass à grande bouche |
| Italian | Boccalone |
| German | Forellenbarsch |
| Russian | Большеротый окунь |
| Chinese | 大口黑鱸 |
| Japanese | オオクチバス |
| Korean | 큰입배스 |
| Vietnamese | Cá vược miệng rộng |
| Thai | ปลากะพงปากกว้าง |
| Indonesian | ikan kakap hitam |
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Warnings & Kosher Issues
- Largemouth bass is a sunfish-family fish (Centrarchidae) with fins and scales, so it is kosher.
- Don't confuse the name with the smallmouth bass or with African cichlids sometimes called bass.