QUESTION FOR SOLOMON :) OR ANY ONE WHO KNOWS

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snookn21;4163187; said:
Thanks for the info xander, it seems your right. 4 out of 4 so far have 2 rows of teeth. I have a 24" fl in my tank at home with only one row? Can you explain that?
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only thing i can think of is the second row of teeth might be so small/closely placed to the first that it might have been missed. you'd probably have to wait for solomon to ans this qn, haha. and incidenally, fantastic looking florida gar!
zspidel;4163151; said:
hey xander, this is off topic, but i was reading some old threads from you. were you a newbie when you first started back in 07? if so youve def gained a lot of knowledge
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thanks for the affirmation:) probably worse than a newbie. i used to ask a lot of simple questions- the kind that i now encourage others to read up on their own-, and posted a lot before thinking it through, something i'm trying to discourage people from doing. why? not because i'm trying to be a cool or any rubbish like that, but because i really only started learning and progressing when i shut my "mouth", started to read & think before i posted. & when u read back on yr old posts and realise what a dick/idiot u were, it's really something you realise u should have avoided all in all. ps: sorry to the op for the off topic response.
 
Hi John et al,

i'm actually currently in Louisiana for a conference on gar ecology & management for the week (doing some field work on the road trip as well). richard is also on this trip as is another one of our friends.

that being said my response will be short for now - it's essentially as xander was referring to, which is information i posted a long time ago on AP and here...the generic distinction between Lepisosteus and Atractosteus is not exactly true...BOTH genera of gars have two rows of teeth in the upper jaw, it's just that the LEP gars (including FL) have only ONE prominent row of teeth on the upper jaw, where as ATRACT gars have TWO prominent rows in the upper jaw.
there is bound to be some variation even within the species, so that's likely what you are seeing in the FL gars. if they are examined closely, the majority of the FL gars should be showing one prominent row of upper jaw teeth, but also a second row with varying visibility.

hope that helps!--
--solomon

PS-- we've seen some BIG spotted gars today (shortnose and longnose too!)
 
Thanks for the answers, xander & Solomon.
 
snookn21;4164589; said:
I thank all of you for your answers. Here are some pics of that monster gar that had just the one row.
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that's an impressive fish with an equally impressive set of dentures! in the second pic, the prominent row of teeth would be the huge ones, the second row is likely the row of small ones right above it. also, is the gar in the third pic the same as the one in the first pic? is it wild caught? is it possible to get some dorsal shots of the snout area? the fish somehow it reminds me of a croc I...if this is how large wild caught fl gars look like i'm going to have to add them to my list:P
 
That actually looks like a pretty close match to the Croc 1.
 
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