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Ambloplites cavifrons Cope, 1868

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Cope, E. D. (1868). On the distribution of fresh-water fishes in the Allegheny region of southwestern Virginia. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Second series.</em> v. 6 (pt 3) (art. 5): 207-247, Pls. 26-28 [wrongly as 22-24]. [Table of contents dates part 3 as Jan 1869, but separates were made available to author in Dec. 1868. This is volume 19, second series volume 6.].

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Perciformes
family
Centrarchidae
genus
Ambloplites
species
Ambloplites cavifrons

Name

Homonyms
Ambloplites cavifrons Cope, 1868
Common names
Achigã-limão in Portuguese
Roanoke Bass in English
Roanoke Bass in English
slunečnice potoční in Czech
Roanoke Bass in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Cope, E. D. (1868). On the distribution of fresh-water fishes in the Allegheny region of southwestern Virginia. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Second series.</em> v. 6 (pt 3) (art. 5): 207-247, Pls. 26-28 [wrongly as 22-24]. [Table of contents dates part 3 as Jan 1869, but separates were made available to author in Dec. 1868. This is volume 19, second series volume 6.].
  2. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  3. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  4. Gilbert, Carter R., 1998: Type catalogue of Recent and fossil North American Freshwater fishes: families Cyprinidae, Catostomidae, Ictaluridae, Centrarchidae and Elassomatidae. Florida Museum of Natural History, Special Publication No. 1. 1-284.
  5. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  6. Near, Thomas J., and James B. Koppelman, 2009: Species diversity, phylogeny and phylogeography of Centrarchidae. Centrarchid Fishes Diversity, Biology, and Conservation. 1-38.
  7. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
  8. Page, L. M., H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, R. N. Lea, N. E. Mandrak, et al., eds., 2013: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Seventh Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 34. ix + 384.
  9. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174.
  10. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183.
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