Blue Walleye | |
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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 | |
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.