European perch
Scientific name: Perca fluviatilis Linnaeus, 1758
Overview
The European perch, also known as the common perch, redfin perch, big-scaled redfin, English perch, Euro perch, Eurasian perch, Eurasian river perch, Hatch, poor man's rockfish or in Anglophone parts of Europe, simply the perch, is a predatory freshwater fish native to Europe and North Asia. It is the type species of the genus Perca.
From the Wikipedia article “European perch”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Least concern on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Where it lives
Common names
Also known in English as English perch, perch.
Names in other languages (9)
- Arabic
- فرخ أوروبي
- Chinese
- 鲈鱼
- French
- perche, perche commune, perche européenne, perche fluviatile
- German
- Barsch, Egli, Flussbarsch, Kretzer
- Japanese
- ヨーロピアンパーチ
- Persian
- لوتی اروپایی
- Russian
- окунь, Окунь речной обыкновенный, речной окунь
- Spanish
- perca, perca de río
- Turkish
- tatlisu levregi, Tatlısu levreği
Related animals
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: FishBase.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q166812, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “European perch”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — George Chernilevsky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
- Range map — Lime82, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026