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Lepisosteus (from Greek lepis, 'scale' and osteos, 'bone') [3] is a genus of gars in the family Lepisosteidae. It contains four extant species, found throughout eastern and central North America. It contains four extant species, found throughout eastern and central North America.
Lepisosteus indicus, the Indian gar [1], is an extinct species of gar known from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) and early Paleocene of India.It is known from a single articulated but poorly-preserved skull and a lost set of vertebrae from the Lameta Formation [2], in addition to numerous isolated scales and teeth from the Lameta Formation and Intertrappean Beds.
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 for about 100 million years. [ 4 ]
Lepisosteus platyrhincus. The Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus) can be found in the Ocklockonee river, Florida, and Georgia, [42] [43] and prefers muddy or sandy bottoms with bountiful vegetation. [42] [44] It is commonly confused with its cousin, the spotted gar. [42] Uneven black spots cover its head, body, and fins.
The spotted gar is a voracious predator. Its sharp-toothed beak is very effective at catching fast moving prey. A diet study of the spotted gar reported the diet of a spotted gar consists of four species of fish; golden topminnow, warmouth, bluegill, and spotted sunfish, which adds to 18.1% of total food volume in the stomach, while 57.5% of the stomach content was shrimp. [5]
The Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus) is a species of gar found in the US from the Savannah River and Ochlockonee River watersheds of Georgia and throughout peninsular Florida. Florida gar can reach a length over 3 ft (91 cm). The young feed on zooplankton and insect larvae, as well as small fish. Adults mainly eat fish, shrimp, and ...
The shortnose gar (Lepisosteus platostomus) is a primitive freshwater fish of the family Lepisosteidae. It is native to the United States where its range includes the Mississippi and Missouri River basins, ranging from Montana to the west and the Ohio River to the east, southwards to the Gulf Coast. It inhabits calm waters in large rivers and ...
Lepisosteus berlandieri Girard 1858 Atractosteus lucius Duméril 1870 The alligator gar ( Atractosteus spatula ) is a euryhaline ray-finned fish in the clade Ginglymodi of the infraclass Holostei / h oʊ ˈ l ɒ s t i aɪ / , being most closely related to the bowfins .