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An eighteenth-century print with Linnaeus' original name for the longnose gar. Longnose gar (L. osseus) At Georgia Aquarium. 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]
Longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus) The Longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus) has a longer, narrower, more cylindrical body, [34] [50] and can be distinguished from other species of gar by its snout, which is more than twice the length of the rest of its head. [51] [52] It can reach up to 6 feet and 8 inches in length and weigh up to 35–80 pounds.
Sóc Trăng (362,029 people, constituting 30.18% of the province's population and 27.43% of all Khmer in Vietnam), Trà Vinh (318,231 people, constituting 31.53% of the province's population and 24.11% of all Khmer in Vietnam), Kiên Giang (211,282 people, constituting 12.26% of the province's population and 16.01% of all Khmer in Vietnam), An ...
Spotted gar: North America Lepisosteus osseus Linnaeus, 1758: Longnose gar: east coast of North and Central America in freshwater lakes and as far west as Kansas and Texas and southern New Mexico Lepisosteus platostomus Rafinesque, 1820: Shortnose gar: Montana to the west and the Ohio River to the east, southwards to the Gulf Coast.
Starting in 2003, ' The Most Beloved Vietnam Television Dramas' Voting Contest (Vietnamese: Cuộc thi bình chọn phim truyền hình Việt Nam được yêu thích nhất) is held annually or biennially by VTV Television Magazine to honor Vietnamese television dramas broadcast during the year(s) on two channels VTV1-VTV3. [27]
Epics (Mnong language: Ot N'rong - Ot: telling by singing, N'rong: old story) take an important part in Mnong people's life.Many of these epics, such as Con đỉa nuốt bon Tiăng (Mnong language: Ghu sok bon Tiăng, English: The leech swallows Tiăng village), [4] or Mùa rẫy bon Tiăng (English: The farming season of Tiăng village) are quite long.
After Vietnam's Đổi Mới in 1986, due to ever-greater global capitalist demands of coffee and valuable metals, [53] larger waves of Vietnamese migration arrived in the Central Highlands and overwhelmed indigenous highlanders. The Vietnamese population of the region went from 500,000 to 1975, to 4 million today, outnumbering native ethnic ...
During the expansion of Vietnam some place names have become Vietnamized. Consequently, as control of different places and regions has shifted among China, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries, the Vietnamese names for places can sometimes differ from the names residents of aforementioned places use, although nowadays it has become more ...