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Golden perch
| Golden perch | |
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| A large, stocked, female golden perch caught from an impoundment: The fishing lure is still in its mouth. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Centrarchiformes |
| Family: | Percichthyidae |
| Genus: | Macquaria |
| Species: | M. ambigua
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| Binomial name | |
| Macquaria ambigua (J. Richardson, 1845)
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| Synonyms[2] | |
The golden perch (Macquaria ambigua) is a medium-sized, yellow or gold-coloured species of Australian freshwater fish found primarily in the Murray-Darling River system, though a subspecies is found in the Lake Eyre-Cooper Creek system, and another subspecies, suspected to be ancestral to all other populations, is found in the Fitzroy River system in Queensland.[3] Other common names for golden perch are "goldens", “yellowbelly” and "callop", the last generally used only in South Australia.
Golden perch are not a true perch, which belongs to the genus Perca from the family Percidae, but a member of the Percichthyidae (temperate perch) family. This relatively widespread and widely stocked species is an important angling sport fish in Australia.
- ^ Lintermans, M.; Kerezsy, A. (2019). "Macquaria ambigua". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T123358536A123382796. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T123358536A123382796.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Macquaria ambigua month+december". FishBase.
- ^ "Species profile—Macquaria ambigua (golden perch)". Species information. Queensland Government. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
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