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The alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) is a euryhaline ray-finned fish in the clade Ginglymodi of the infraclass Holostei / hoʊˈlɒstiaɪ /, being most closely related to the bowfins. It is the largest species in the gar family (Lepisosteidae), and is among the largest freshwater fish in North America. The fossil record traces its group's ...
Gar. Gars are an ancient group of ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae. They comprise seven living species of fish in two genera that inhabit fresh, brackish, and occasionally marine waters of eastern North America, Central America and Cuba in the Caribbean, [1][2] though extinct members of the family were more widespread. They are the ...
Longnose gar. Mark Catesby, The Green Gar Fish (Esox osseus), published 1731-1743. An eighteenth-century print with Linnaeus' original name for the longnose gar. The longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus), also known as longnose garpike or billy gar, is a ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae. The genus may have been present in North America ...
What do Florida gar, Alligator gar look like? The Florida gar is a prehistoric fish with bony scales that form a hard armor. Alligator gar are long, slender fish with bony, diamond-shaped scales.
Shortnose gar can be discerned from other gar species in that they lack the upper jaw of the alligator gar, the long snout of the longnose gar, and the markings of the spotted gar. [5] The shortnose gar reaches up to 88 cm (35 in), but a more common length is 62.5 cm (24.6 in). [6]
The currently recognized species are: Lepisosteus oculatus, Lepisosteus osseus, Lepisosteus platostomus, and Lepisosteus platyrhincus. [9] Three species formerly classified in Lepisosteus ( tropical gar , Cuban gar , and alligator gar ) are now assigned to the genus Atractosteus .
A. grandei was a large-bodied gar, reaching 1.4–1.5 m (4.6–4.9 ft) in body length. The species existed approximately 1500–2500 years after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event that killed of most large life on Earth. Atractosteus grandei was a macropredator. It had rhomboid ganoid (fish) scales, a weakly ornamented skull roof and ...
Litholepis Rafinesque 1818. Atractosteus atrox. Atractosteus is a genus of gars in the family Lepisosteidae, with three species. The genus first appeared in the Campanian in the Late Cretaceous .