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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.
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.
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The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.
Following the increasing of Internet usage in Vietnam, many online encyclopedias were published. The two largest online Vietnamese-language encyclopedias are Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam, a state encyclopedia, and Vietnamese Wikipedia, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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 ...
In 1406, the Chinese Ming dynasty king ordered his army to invade Vietnam and confiscate all things related to that culture, such as books and art objects, and bring them back to China. The following year, the interim Vietnamese ruler was caught by invaders, carnage followed, and all works of art and architecture were destroyed—including Hòn ...