On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:27:06 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:51:41 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

Walleyes are in the perch family.

Technically, walleye are a paraphyletic perciform - meaning that they
are a species who can not be related back to any particular species.

The only thing they have in common with perch is that they have spiny
ray shaped fins. They also have traits in common with pike and
genetically black bass.

Thus, the classification as a paraphyletic perciform.

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7...5694--,00.html

Now, Shut Up....80

Walleye are a perch like perciform - scientific name Sander vitreus
vitreus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walleye

Perciformes are perch like, but they aren't perch.

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/Orde...er=Perciformes

While they are listed as being in the perch family, they are
paraphyletic. As in:

"Largest order of fishes. Most families in many suborders are not
currently definable in terms of shared derived characters and thus may
not be monophyletic."

Not being monophyletic, they are paraphyletic which is defined as:

"a group of organisms is said to be paraphyletic (Greek para = near
and phyle = race) if the group contains its most recent common
ancestor but does not contain all the descendants of that ancestor."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphyletic

I rest my case.

I WIN!!! WHOO HOO!!!