Gator gars not illegal in california?

[Jeox]

Californian law prohibits ''all gar of the genus Lepisosteus''
Does this mean gator gar are TECHINICALLY legal now?
Man, i love loopholes.

Until relatively recently all gars have generally been classified in the genus Lepisosteus Lacepède, 1803. The alligator gar had been given the name Atractosteus adamantinus by the eccentric Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz in 1818, and for a long time Atractosteus was simply viewed as a junior synonym of Lepisosteus. E. O. Wiley resurrected this genus in 1976, in his work The phylogeny and biogeography of fossil and Recent gars.
Based on Wiley's work, after 1976 the gars were officially split into Lepisosteus and Atractosteus, and ever since then zoos, aquarium books, anglers, and so on have been gradually catching up with the proper terminology.

 

[Edwin]

true

 

[Polypterus]

It is not Genus Lepisosteus in tha Cali law.. it is the Family Lepisosteidae... One is the Genus name the other is the whole Family.

Lepisosteidae consists of the Genus Lepisosteus and Atractosteus
ALL ARE ILLEGAL IN CALI

No loop hole...

Edit: And Atractosteus as a genus has be recognized and validated for a very long time and it was not Zoos, aquarium books and anglers that did it...

 

[Jeox]

It is not Genus Lepisosteus in tha Cali law.. it is the Family Lepisosteidae... One is the Genus name the other is the whole Family.

Lepisosteidae consists of the Genus Lepisosteus and Atractosteus
ALL ARE ILLEGAL IN CALI

No loop hole...

Edit: And Atractosteus as a genus has be recognized and validated for a very long time and it was not Zoos, aquarium books and anglers that did it...

Damn.
nvm on me getting one then..

 

[demjor19]

Californian law prohibits ''all gar of the genus Lepisosteus''
Does this mean gator gar are TECHINICALLY legal now?
Man, i love loopholes.

Until relatively recently all gars have generally been classified in the genus Lepisosteus Lacepède, 1803. The alligator gar had been given the name Atractosteus adamantinus by the eccentric Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz in 1818, and for a long time Atractosteus was simply viewed as a junior synonym of Lepisosteus. E. O. Wiley resurrected this genus in 1976, in his work The phylogeny and biogeography of fossil and Recent gars.
Based on Wiley's work, after 1976 the gars were officially split into Lepisosteus and Atractosteus, and ever since then zoos, aquarium books, anglers, and so on have been gradually catching up with the proper terminology.

lol...nice try.

 

[xander]

knew poly would get to that