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SpeciesPerciformesPercidae
Fish

🐟Walleye

Sander vitreus (Mitchill, 1818)

The walleye, also called the walleyed pike, yellow pike, yellow pikeperch or yellow pickerel, is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States. It is a North American close relative of the European zander, also known as the pikeperch. The walleye is sometimes called the yellow walleye to distinguish it from the blue walleye, which is a color morph that was once found in the southern Ontario and Quebec regions, but is now presumed extinct. However, recent genetic analysis of a preserved (frozen) 'blue walleye' sample suggests that the blue and yellow walleye were simply phenotypes within the same species and do not merit separate taxonomic classification.

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≈ 1/6th of your weight
Also called
Yellow walleye
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
11 kg
Body length
0.54 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
29 years
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Everything we know about the Walleye

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
11 kgrecord 11 kg · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
0.54 mrecord 1.07 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
29 yearsrecord 29 years · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 150000
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
4.19
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.19 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
11 Laverage
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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 Walleye yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyPercidae
  5. ›genusSander
  6. ›speciesSander vitreus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderAcanthomorphata
  3. familyPercidae
  4. subfamilyLuciopercinae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderAcanthomorphata
  10. familyPercidae
  11. subfamilyLuciopercinae
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Doré jaune (fr), breedbekbaars (nl), Glasögongös (sv), 玻璃梭鱸 (zh), Sander vitreus (pt), Sander vitreus (es) … and 13 more languages
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