How to tell the difference with Florida/spotted Gar and Pike characin?

[Swarsh]

Yeah, but how can you tell? is it the snout? or tail?

 

[Wiggles92]

Yeah, but how can you tell? is it the snout? or tail?

It's lacking pretty much every diagnostic for determining if it's a gar or not:

• The snout is wrong.
• The tail is wrong. True gars do not have a homocercal forked tail (symmetrical fin) rather they have a heterocercal tail (vertebrae extend into upper lobe); this difference is readily viewed in juvenile gars.
• The scales are wrong. True gars have ganoid scales which are diamond-shaped, shiny, and hard; these scales are of a different composition than that of other scales.
• The fins are wrong. True gars lack an adipose fin and only have a dorsal fin.

 

[Swarsh]

Ahhh I see, thats the info I needed

Thanks!

 

[andrewsin]

It's lacking pretty much every diagnostic for determining if it's a gar or not:

• The snout is wrong.
• The tail is wrong. True gars do not have a homocercal forked tail (symmetrical fin) rather they have a heterocercal tail (vertebrae extend into upper lobe); this difference is readily viewed in juvenile gars.
• The scales are wrong. True gars have ganoid scales which are diamond-shaped, shiny, and hard; these scales are of a different composition than that of other scales.
• The fins are wrong. True gars lack an adipose fin and only have a dorsal fin.

Thanks for info!


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