Lepisosteiformes

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Family Lepisosteidae

Lepisosteids: 7 species, 2 genus, 3 crocodile hybrid combinations

Lepisosteus:
L. Osseus (Longnose gar)
L. Platostomos (Shortnose gar)
L. Platyrhincus (Florida gar)
L. Oculatus (Spotted gar)

Atractosteus:
A. Spatula (Alligator gar)
A. Tropicus (Tropical gar)
A. Tristoechus (Cuban gar)

Crocodile gar (hybrid)
L. Platostomos x A. Spatula - Croc. gar type I
L. Platyrhicus or Oculatus x A. Spatula - Croc gar type II
L. osseus x A. Spatula - Croc gar type III

Other hybrid Combinations:
L. Oculatus x L. Platostomos
L. Osseus x L. Platostomos
L. Oculatus x L. Platyrhincus
A. Tropicus x A. Spatula

Thanks Richard (Polypterus) for giving me the 2nd hybrid combinations.
wouldnt feel right posting it if i didnt give him credit.

 

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Lepisosteid description

Gars are easily recognized by their long snouts. Most gars are a brownish color with a dark stripe down the side. With a white belly. All gars have a rounded Caudal fin, their dorsal fin is toward the very back of the upper body, and their anal fin almost directly below it. They have 2 sets of paired fins. Their middle pelvic fins, and their pectoral fins, which are right behind the head. Juvenile gars have a rayless, fleshy filament extending above the caudal fin. Their mouths are full of needle sharp teeth. They have really thick, hard scales that do not overlap like most other fishes. Gars are primitive fishes, meaning that their family hasnt been touched for hundreds of millions of years. They once occured in Africa, India, and Europe, as well as North America.

 

[Polypterus]

L. Platostomos (Shortnose gar)

Lepisosteus Platostomus

Most gars are a brownish color with a dark stripe down the side. With a white belly.

Not really accurate.... Leave this out....

They have really thick, hard scales that do not overlap like most other fishes.

Actually they do overlap and are actually interconnected.

Gars are primitive fishes, meaning that their family hasnt been touched for hundreds of millions of years.

Nah.. they have been touched often. way to often actually.... What they are However is not an evolutionary fad or novelty that has not been time tested.(like so many Teleosts of today) Gar are well built and this form and structure is persistent, stable and well adapted with no need to evolve any significant novelty to survive. They reached perfection many millions of years ago..

 

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Lepisosteus Platostomus



Not really accurate.... Leave this out....


Actually they do overlap and are actually interconnected.



Nah.. they have been touched often. way to often actually.... What they are However is not an evolutionary fad or novelty that has not been time tested.(like so many Teleosts of today) Gar are well built and this form and structure is persistent, stable and well adapted with no need to evolve any significant novelty to survive. They reached perfection many millions of years ago..

thanks richard. maybe it will let me edit this time.

 

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wouldnt let me edit.

 

[Polypterus]

Ok Neil... Here lets do this...

You seem dead set on doing this so I'll help you out by doing a bit of co-authoring and editing...

Write this out and send it to me as a Word file by E-mail.(PM me for addy).. I'll clean it up and send it back to you. You can change some and send it back.. We can go back and forth a few times until this is a honed down and good start document.

At this time we can post it and have Anne place it up at the top for further use comment and clarification. Might be a good start to a Gar FAQ for MFK and condense some stuff....

 

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thanks richard. that would be greatly appreciated. is it ok if we use pics from primitivefishes.com to properly ID each fish that is covered?? BTW i will get everything typed up ASAP.

 

[Polypterus]

thanks richard. that would be greatly appreciated. is it ok if we use pics from primitivefishes.com to properly ID each fish that is covered?? BTW i will get everything typed up ASAP.

A link to Primitivefishes for this is sufficient...

 

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thats good enough.