Golden perch
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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 | |
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A large, stocked, female golden perch caught from an impoundment: The fishing lure is still in its mouth. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Percichthyidae |
Genus: | Macquaria |
Species: | M. ambigua |
Binomial name | |
Macquaria ambigua (J. Richardson, 1845) | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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.