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
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://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.
