Macquaria ambigua (Golden Perch, Yellowbelly, Callop)
Macquaria ambigua (Golden Perch)
Family: Percichthyidae
Status: Native
Size: medium-sized fish, commonly 30–50 cm and 1–5 kg; but can attain 60 cm and 15 kg.
Description: olive bronze, yellow or gold coloured on the back with yellow paler belly and darker fins. It has a concaved forehead. Larger specimens have a reduced head size giving a hump shouldered appearance.
Location: Found primarily in the Murray-Darling river system, but also occurs in the Lake Eyre-Cooper Creek system and in the Fitzroy River system. It is stocked into impoundments.
Macquaria ambigua is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Albury, Wodonga
Species information
- Macquaria ambigua Scientific name
- Golden Perch, Yellowbelly, Callop Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
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