Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has publicly stated the finding of a new species of black bass. During routine bass genetic information collection in 2007, a DNA profile was marked as, "new." In the Chipola river, the specimen was caught and since that date scientist have defined a range in coastal river systems in Alabama and the panhandle of Florida.
The discovery was revealed at a conference of the Southern Division of American Fisheries Society in the first half of this year. Choctaw bass ,Micropterus haiaka, scientific name is in progress to entitle the new freshwater bony fish.
As a sidnote, a gross morphology of the choctaw bass shows resemblance to the spotted bass.
http://myfwc.com/research/freshwater/sport-fishes/black-basses/choctaw-bass/
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