What is "rock bass"

Cabrilla \Ca*bril"la\, n. [Sp., prawn.] (Zo["o]l) A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.

n. Any fish of the genus (taxlink Ambloplites genus noshow=1), especially of the species (taxlink Ambloplites rupestris species noshow=1) and (taxlink Ambloplites constellatus species noshow=1).

1. n. a kind of sea bass [syn: rock sea bass, Centropristis philadelphica]

2. game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes [syn: rock sunfish, Ambloplites rupestris]

The rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris), also known as the rock perch, goggle-eye, red eye, is a fresh water fish native to east-central North America. This red eyed creature is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family ( Centrarchidae) of order Perciformes and can be distinguished from other similar species by the six spines in the anal fin (other sunfish have only three anal fin spines).