#2378 · 🐟 fish

White Perch

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse baars ·Morone americana

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Emilio Concari · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © uconnbirdfish · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © joe_cutler · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © uconnbirdfish · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Quinn · CC BY 4.0
6. © Nicholas Bott · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Prince Edward Island, Bedford Parish, PE, CA:© Robert W. Harding · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Haddam, CT, USA:© uconnbirdfish · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. Stafford County, VA, USA:© kary · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY, USA:© Steven Bodzin · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The white perch ( Morone americana ) is not a true perch but is, rather, a fish of the temperate bass family, Moronidae, notable as a food and game fish in eastern North America. In some locales it is referred to incorrectly as "silver bass".

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,696iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
3,696 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).

fact sheet

English: White Perch
Nederlands: Amerikaanse baars
scientific name: Morone americana
class: Actinopterygii
order: Acanthuriformes
family: Moronidae
IUCN Red List: LC · least concern
sightings in NL: 0
sightings worldwide: 3,696
GBIF records in NL: 0
weight: —
length: —
lifespan: —
named: 1789 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Moronidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 84432, Wikidata Q2337531, GBIF 2394604, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.