Species: Perca flavescens

Yellow Perch
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    Body fairly deep and compressed; two dorsal fins; tail fin moderately forked; green on upper side, with 6-9 green-brown saddles or bars on yellow sides; black blotch at rear of first dorsal fin; paired fins yellow ro red; large mouth extends to middle of eye. Total length to around 40 cm. Eggs: in pleated or folded gelatinous strands up to several feet long.

    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Craniata
    Class

    Actinopterygii

    Order

    Perciformes

    Family

    Percidae

    Genus

    Perca

    Classification
    Other Global Common Names
    perchaude
    Informal Taxonomy
    Animals, Vertebrates - Fishes - Bony Fishes - Perches and Darters
    Formal Taxonomy
    Animalia - Craniata - Actinopterygii - Perciformes - Percidae - Perca - are separate species (Marsden et al. 1995).

    Body fairly deep and compressed; two dorsal fins; tail fin moderately forked; green on upper side, with 6-9 green-brown saddles or bars on yellow sides; black blotch at rear of first dorsal fin; paired fins yellow ro red; large mouth extends to middle of eye. Total length to around 40 cm. Eggs: in pleated or folded gelatinous strands up to several feet long.

    Habitat Type Description
    Freshwater
    Migration
    false - true - false - May migrate from lakes into tributary rivers to spawn, or into fresh water from brackish water (Scott and Crossman 1973).
    Non-migrant
    false
    Locally Migrant
    true
    Food Comments
    Larvae and young primarily zooplankton feeders; older young eat mostly invertebrates associated with bottom and with aquatic plants; adults feed among plants and along bottom on larger invertebrates and small fishes (Moyle 1976).
    Reproduction Comments
    Spawning occurs in spring or late winter. Eggs hatch in about 10-20 days. In the north, males become sexually mature in 2-3 years, females in 3-4 years (Moyle 1976, Becker 1983, Scott and Crossman 1973). Females may spawn up to about 8 times in their lifetime; maximum age is about 10 years (Bart and Page 1992).
    Ecology Comments
    Tends to form loose schools.
    Length
    31
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G5
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    1996-09-24
    Global Status Last Changed
    1996-09-24
    Conservation Status Map
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    Global Range
    This species is native throughout much of northern North America east of the Rockies in Atlantic, Arctic, Great Lakes, and Mississippi River basins, from Nova Scotia and Quebec west to Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, and south to Ohio, Illinois, and Nebraska, and south in Atlantic drainages to Santee River, South Carolina. It has been introduced in most western states and elsewhere.
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