Yellow perch: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the yellow perch lives – recorded in 2 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Perca flavescens
Group	Bony fish
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	2 countries
Continents	North America
Class	Ray-finned fish
Order	Perciformes
Family	Percidae

Where does the yellow perch live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the yellow perch in 2 countries and territories across North America. In Canada it is listed as introduced (GRIIS checklists via GBIF).

United States
Canada (introduced)

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the yellow perch endangered?

The yellow perch’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the yellow perch?

The yellow perch (Perca flavescens) is a ray-finned fish in the order Perciformes and the family Percidae, genus Perca. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the yellow perch

The yellow perch (Perca flavescens), commonly referred to as perch, striped perch, American perch or preacher is a freshwater ray-finned fish from the perch family Percidae, native to much of central North America, particularly the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River basin and the Upper Mississippi River catchment (which connects to the former via canals). It was first described in 1814 by Samuel Latham Mitchill from New York, and is closely related and morphologically similar to the European perch (Perca fluviatilis), and is sometimes considered a subspecies of its European counterpart.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Yellow perch (revision 1368448045), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q469754 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).