{{short description|Species of ray-finned fish}} {{Use American English|date=January 2026}} {{Speciesbox | image = Alabama Bass1.png | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=NatureServe |date=2013 |title=''Micropterus henshalli'' |volume=2013 |article-number=e.T15351329A19035171 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T15351329A19035171.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref> | taxon = Micropterus henshalli | authority = Hubbs & Bailey, 1940 | range_map = Alabama Bass distribution map.png | range_map_caption = Distribution map of the Alabama bass. Yellow represents native and purple represents where it has been introduced. }}
'''''Micropterus henshalli''''', the '''Alabama bass''', is a medium-sized freshwater ray finned fish, a black bass from the genus ''Micropterus'' which is part of the sunfish family Centrarchidae.<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase|mictopters|henshalli|month=December|year=2019}}</ref> This species is endemic to the southeastern United States where it is native to the rivers which drain into Mobile Bay in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia where they are found in pools in rivers which have a good flow and in impoundments. They have been introduced elsewhere in the United States; the hybridization of this species with the redeye bass after Alabama bass were introduced into Keowee Reservoir in South Carolina is thought to have been the cause in the decline in the population of redeye bass.<ref name = nas>{{cite web | author = Benson, A.J. | title = ''Micropterus henshalli'' Hubbs and Bailey, 1940 | publisher = U.S. Geological Survey | work = Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL | url = https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?SpeciesID=398 | date = 17 June 2019}}</ref> ''Micropterus henshalli'' was first formally described as a subspecies of the spotted bass (''M. punctulatus'') by Carl Leavitt Hubbs and Reeve Maclaren Bailey in 1940 with the type locality given as Jefferson County, Alabama. The specific name honors James A. Henshall who was a bass angler.<ref name = BJF>{{cite journal | author1 = Winston H. Baker | author2 = Carol E. Johnston | author3 = George W. Folkerts | name-list-style = amp | year = 2008 | title = The Alabama Bass, <small>''Micropterus henshalli'' (Teleostei: Centrarchidae), from the Mobile River basin</small> | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264690929_The_Alabama_Bass_Micropterus_Henshalli_Teleostei_Centrarchidae_From_The_Mobile_River_Basin/link/53eb64680cf23b8116a9bb9b/download | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 1861 | pages = 57–67}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}} *[https://www.fishbase.de/summary/Micropterus-henshalli.html Micropterus henshalli Hubbs & Bailey, 1940 FishBase] *Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 2011. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 663p.
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Category:Freshwater fish of North America Category:Micropterus Category:Taxa named by Carl Leavitt Hubbs
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