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Percidae
perch
Perca fluviatilis
Fish Reaching Sixty Centimeters in European Waters
- Temperate
- Circumpolar Arctic
- Transcontinental
- Arctic Ocean
- Europe
- Polar regions
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Arctic Ocean
Europe
Fusiform
Largeperch is a freshwater fish from Eurasia. It occurs in freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 60 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Percidae
- Genus
- Perca
- Maximum length
- 60 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Eurasia: throughout Europe to northernmost extremity of Scandinavia, except Iberian Peninsula, central Italy, and Adriatic basin; Aegean Sea basin in Matriza and from Struma to Aliakmon drainages; Aral Sea basin; Siberia in rivers draining the Arctic Ocean eastward to Kolyma. Widely introduced. Several countries report adverse ecological impact after introduction.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
