I'm pretty sure this is a baby alligator gar, looks exactly like the baby alligator gar on www.aquaticpredators.com juvenile gar ID key. Just to be sure, can someone help me out?
Gar ID
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As posted in your other thread, yes that is an alligator gar. The only way to be sure is the check and see if it has two rows of teeth in the upper jaw. All other gars have one row. Next time he eats try and look inside his upper jaw and see. I am almost positive from the picture that it is one though. Nice
It's so small, lol I'm not exactly sure if i can see two rows of teeth but i'll try looking. Glad I know I didn't get jipped. Someone else from around my area said the owner told him he had baby short nose gars lol, but he told me alligator, and it certainly looked like one to me.
Looks like a gator to me.MrHarris;279451;279451 said:I'm pretty sure this is a baby alligator gar, looks exactly like the baby alligator gar on www.aquaticpredators.com juvenile gar ID key. Just to be sure, can someone help me out?
There is no need to check tooth rows which actually would be pointless at this size..and in many cases can not be really accurate anyhow to ID the fish unless you know what your looking for, Lepisosteus regularly show the same trait and on a fish this young your just wasting time thinking about it.
It is a Gator with no doubt and there is no question about it, just by looking at the pic it is clear. these fish are very distinctive and not easy to mistake at this size.
It is a Gator with no doubt and there is no question about it, just by looking at the pic it is clear. these fish are very distinctive and not easy to mistake at this size.
Polypterus;712207; said:
unfortunately a heck of a lot of sellers do it!!!
but yeah, as polypterus said, definitely a gator. and Lepisosteus at this size will be much slimmer and have a longer, narrower snout. to bring up the characteristic he was alluding to as well, Lepisosteus gars also have a secondary row of teeth in the upper jaw, the difference is the prominence of this second row...in Atractosteus it's prominent, in Lepisosteus it's merely present but definitely noticeable. in smaller gars, it can be difficult to make this distinction either way, hence the photo-keys to these juveniles which are available and just posting pics of the fishes for ID--
--solomon
