Species profile—Macquaria ambigua (golden perch)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) → Percichthyidae (basses and cods) → Macquaria ambigua (golden perch)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
- Family
- Percichthyidae (basses and cods)
- Scientific name
- Macquaria ambigua (Richardson, 1845)
- Common name
- golden perch
- WildNet taxon ID
- 27042
- Synonym(s)
- Macquaria ambigua ambigua
Macquaria sp. B
Macquaria ambigua oriens - Alternate name(s)
- yellowbelly
white perch
tarki
Murray perch
Murray bream
freshwater bream
callop
Murray-Darling yellowbelly - Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Dependant Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Aquatic
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=27042.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
