see text The Moronidae is a family of percomorph fishes, commonly called the temperate basses, in the order Moroniformes.

Moronidae was first proposed as a family in 1896 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann.

[2] Other authorities place the Ephippidae and Drepaneidae in the order Ephippiformes with the Moronidae classified as incertae sedis in the series Eupercaria.

[2] The largest species is the striped bass (Morone saxatilis) with a maximum published total length of 200 cm (79 in) while the smallest is the white bass (M. chrysops) with a maximum published total length of 45 cm (18 in).

[8] Moronidae basses are important target fishes for recreational sea angling, and some species support significant commercial fisheries[9] and are used in aquaculture.