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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]
Macquaria ambigua (J. Richardson, 1845), commonly known as golden perch or "yellowbelly" Macquaria australasica (G. Cuvier, 1830), commonly known as Macquarie perch; Macquaria colonorum (Günther, 1863), commonly known as estuary perch; Macquaria novemaculeata (Steindachner, 1866), commonly known as Australian bass
The Murray cod is the apex aquatic predator in the rivers of the Murray-Darling basin, [3] and will eat almost anything smaller than itself, including finned fishes such as smaller Murray cod, golden perch, silver perch, bony bream, eel-tailed catfish, western carp gudgeon, and Australian smelt and introduced fish such as carp, goldfish, and ...
The Macquarie perch (Macquaria australasica) is an Australian native freshwater fish of the Murray-Darling river system.It is a member of the family Percichthyidae and is closely related to the golden perch (Macquaria ambigua).
The freshwater fish of Australia include approximately 280 species. Subcategories. ... Golden perch; Golden pygmy perch; H. Hypseleotris compressa; Hypseleotris galii; M.
For its land-size, Australia has a low diversity of native freshwater fish with only 281 described species. [1] This is largely because Australia is a very dry continent with sporadic rainfall and large areas of desert. There is a higher diversity of salt water fish. The most common freshwater fish are: Murray cod; Australian bass; Other ...
Originally, river blackfish co-inhabited many of its lowland and "midland" habitats with species such as Murray cod and golden perch, and its upland habitats with species such as trout cod and Macquarie perch. It is a popular angling fish in some parts of its range. [2]
The golden pygmy perch (Nannoperca variegata) is a species of temperate perch endemic to Australia, where it is found in both Ewens Ponds and Deep Creek, South Australia, and several tributaries of the Glenelg River in Victoria. [2]