Bartram’s bass. Photograph: UGA
Trout anglers have lengthy been accustomed to taxonomic modifications—a few of us are sufficiently old to recollect the seismic shock of Salmo gairdneri altering to Oncorhynchus mykiss—however the bass world has seen its share, as nicely. Just lately, anglers within the Southeast realized that the bass they’ve been catching their complete lives may not be the bass they thought they had been. And article by Chris Hunt in Hatch Magazine tells the entire story:
Late this summer season, ecologists with the College of Georgia have formally declared the presence of two “new” black bass subspecies — the Bartram’s bass and the Altamaha bass. Each species had been beforehand recognized, however solely not too long ago, due to the usage of mitochondrial DNA evaluation, had been they confirmed as distinct species of the black-bass lineage based mostly within the genus micropterus (and, sure, smallmouth bass are on this genus, too).
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