LONGNOSE GAR (Lepisosteus osseus)

[Polypterus]

The dorsal stripe is from it being young. It goes away as they get bigger.

Thanks for your reply Reddwarf but I'm aware of the fact some Lepisosteids have a dorsal stripe as a juvenile and lose this into a pattern of spots later in life. Longnosed do not typically have this trait. If a longnosed does have a dorsal stripe it is typically rather un-noticeable or not very prominent. Often it is just a thin line. It will typically become apparent when it is breaking up into a series of dorsal spots but otherwise it is not a dark thick and prominent line..

This sort of makes these fish interesting... An oddity of variation for a Juvenile fish.

 

[snookn21]

All our wild caught gars look nice because we only collect the best ones!

 

[Madding]

Thanks for your reply Reddwarf but I'm aware of the fact some Lepisosteids have a dorsal stripe as a juvenile and lose this into a pattern of spots later in life. Longnosed do not typically have this trait. If a longnosed does have a dorsal stripe it is typically rather un-noticeable or not very prominent. Often it is just a thin line. It will typically become apparent when it is breaking up into a series of dorsal spots but otherwise it is not a dark thick and prominent line..

This sort of makes these fish interesting... An oddity of variation for a Juvenile fish.

They are very nice looking but they don't seem any different from normal juvenile LNG to me.

 

[snookn21]

They dont look any different to me neither just nice YOY longnose!

 

[Polypterus]

They are very nice looking but they don't seem any different from normal juvenile LNG to me.

Go though a couple hundred from varied localities across distribution and you would see the reason for my post. They actually are a bit different from those in the Eastern coast, Midwest or Southern Core populations. Variation is high in these fish but there are just some things that are standard to an extent. These fish show a non-standard variation from many of the fish I've worked with and can attach known locality data to. Of coarse these are also the first good Flordia LNG that have been offered And Honestly I have not been looking there at this time for this fish. Platyrhincus have been a more pressing detail. I would be very interested in seeing a whole bunch of photos of several different LNG of varied size from this population and nearby populations.

Anyhow... I Look foreword to seeing them in person John as they are peculiar and really nice LNG. For Reference Solomon has contacted you and I'm working with him on that order.

 

[snookn21]

Sounds good. You will really like the gars. I will try and get a video of us collecting one day. That way you can see some of the monsters we dont keep!