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Blue Walleye
Blue Walleye
Information
Common Name Blue Pike
Range Great Lakes, North America
Scientific Classification
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Order Perciformes
Family Percidae
Genus Sander
Species S. vitreus vitreus
Conservation Status
EXSpecies
Extinct

The Blue Walleye (Sander vitreus vitreus), also known as the Blue Pike, is a fish in the family Percidae found in the Great Lakes of North America.

They were declared extinct in 1983.

Species controversy[]

The blue walleye was long considered to be different from the yellow walleye.

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