One thing is for certain; it is some sort of hybrid and not a pure strain BG, GSF, RES, or PS. It is also an “anomaly” among what you typically see with your standard lepomis crosses. To paraphrase Thomas Kuhn, it is the build up of anomalies that drives paradigm shifts and revolutions in scientific thought.

Give it time ewest, someday the DNA mapping of the lepomis members will get done.