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Percidae
yellow perch
Perca flavescens
Percid Fish beneath the Atlantic Ocean
- Yellow
- Tropical
- Circumpolar Arctic
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- North America
- Polar regions
- West Asia
- Fusiform
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Yellow
Tropical
Regional distribution
Fusiform
Mediumyellow perch is known from North America as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Percidae
- Genus
- Perca
- Maximum length
- 50 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- North America: Atlantic, Arctic, Great Lakes, and Mississippi River basins from Nova Scotia to Mackenzie River drainage, Northwest Territories in Canada, and south to Ohio, Illinois and Nebraska in the USA; south in Atlantic drainages to Savannah River in Georgia, USA.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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Family
Conservation status
