Percichthyidae

Golden perch

Macquaria ambigua

Percichthyid Fish beneath Australian Waters

• Yellow
• Temperate
• Coastal
• Transcontinental
• Freshwater fish
• Oceania
• Deep-bodied
• Large
• Temperate fish

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. 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. Other common names for golden perch are "goldens", "yellowbelly" and "callop", the last generally used only in South Australia.