Monster Leichardti skull and bones found in Australia

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These pics were taken on the bank of a stream in SE Queensland after some recent flooding. The guy who took them wont tell me the location though. The boot is size 10 this would make the fish about 4 feet long.
This is probably the maximum size, certainly the largest I have seen.
Would love to see a live one this size :WHOA:
 
very impressive
I'm not sure if that's the skull of an osteoglossid though

Edit: actually i think it is the skull of a lei. if so, that thing must have been monstrous.
 
Damn that thing must have been beast
 
Looks like the skull of an osteoglossid as apposed to a leichardti to me but still a monster, a good 3ft long i would have said.
 
Tom500;3965386; said:
Looks like the skull of an osteoglossid as apposed to a leichardti to me but still a monster, a good 3ft long i would have said.
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What's a osteoglossid ? The only arowanas found in this reigon is leis
 
no mistake, that is a very large lei,
it would've bin somewhere in the dawson river,
well thats my guess. I've seen and caught them to a meter twenty.
fish to a meter are not that rare if you know where to find them.
very interesting anyway.
 
syndicate;3965927; said:
What's a osteoglossid ? The only arowanas found in this reigon is leis
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Sorry my bad osteoglossids is the general name for bonytongue fish so, covers everything from arapaima through all the different types af arowana, so what i just said doesnt make sense.

What i meant to say was i think its an Osteoglossum or silver aro, not a leichardti, but i could easily be wrong.
 
im no expert not being rude or anything im just putting it out ther that it was found in australia so i guess itd be a lei apposed to silver arro.

+ its huge wish my leich was that big!!! to bad its as big as 1 of the spikey back bones haha
 
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