The Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides), also known as the widemouth bass, bigmouth bass, black bass, bucketmouth, largies, Potter's fish, Florida bass, Florida largemouth, green bass, bucketmouth bass, green trout, gilsdorf bass, Oswego bass, southern largemouth, LMB, and (paradoxically) northern largemouth, is a carnivorous freshwater sports fish in the sunfish family Centracrchidae, a species of black bass native to the eastern and southern United States and northern Mexico, but widely in
