🐟European perch
La perca o perca de río (Perca fluviatilis) es una especie de pez de la familia Percidae muy abundante en los ríos y lagos de casi toda Europa central y occidental, antes su distribución llegaba hasta Siberia. En la península ibérica ha sido introducida en las cuencas del noreste para ser usada en la pesca deportiva, pero está declarada como especie invasora. Suele tener una longitud de hasta 50 cm y puede pesar hasta 4,75 kg, el cuerpo es oblongo y está cubierto de escamas ásperas y duras, el lomo es verdoso y sin embargo el vientre es plateado, posee 5 o 7 franjas oscuras en el costado. Se comercializan los lomos limpios. De color rosado. La carne es suave y está disponible en el mercado todo el año. Admite casi todas las elaboraciones propias del pescado. Es un pescado blanco con un contenido proteico de 18 %, y 4 % de grasa.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.
- Body mass
- 2.61 kg
- Body length
- 0.25 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 22 years
Everything we know about the European perch
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass2.61 kgrecord 4.75 kg · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length0.25 mrecord 0.6 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Maximum lifespan22 yearsrecord 22 years · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic level4.21FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.21 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humanspotential pestFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Volume l2.6 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for European perch yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- familyPercidae
- genusPerca
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- familyPercidae
- genusPerca
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