hey.....i've been wondering....how many true gars a there out....i mean....there are all those fake ones and there the real ones....how many true gars exist>?
True Gars
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The one's I know are Alligator gar, spotted gar, and longnose gar. There are also Florida gar, Cuban gar, and shortnose gar, but I don't know if these qualify as true gars.
the fake gars are the ones called needlenose, hujeta gar, marbled gar, rocket gar etc. they are usually pike-characins
there are only 7 species of true gar, plus a couple hybrids
Lepisosteus platostomus - shortnose
L. oculatus - spotted
L. platyrhincus - florida
L. osseus - longnose
Atractosteus tropicus - tropical
A. tristoechus - cuban
A. spatula - alligator
hybrids:
crocodile gar Type I : shortnose x alligator
crocodile gar Type II : spotted OR florida x alligator
there are only 7 species of true gar, plus a couple hybrids
Lepisosteus platostomus - shortnose
L. oculatus - spotted
L. platyrhincus - florida
L. osseus - longnose
Atractosteus tropicus - tropical
A. tristoechus - cuban
A. spatula - alligator
hybrids:
crocodile gar Type I : shortnose x alligator
crocodile gar Type II : spotted OR florida x alligator
the word 'true' really shouldn't be tagged on. Gars are gars, and there are only 7 species of them (plus a couple hybrids). period. the only reason is because of the stupid common names given to those pike-characins, calling them 'gars' when in fact they are NOT gars. for ease of discussion, therefore, sometimes people specify 'true' vs. 'fake'
One could add a couple more hybrids which may occur in nature however they are pretty much non existant in the hobby:
Longnosed X alligator
Shortnosed X longnosed
Spotted X longnosed
More research needs to be done on wild hybridization
got a pic of longnose x alligator? solomon told me once about it i think....that thing must look awesome!
here are some pics which were posted from the original website sometime back. i believe you can find them on www.garfishing.com as well:
would be amazing to get one of these hybrids as a juvenile
--solomon
alligator x longnose hybrid:
would be amazing to get one of these hybrids as a juvenile
--solomon
alligator x longnose hybrid:
here are some pics which were posted from the original website sometime back. i believe you can find them on www.garfishing.com as well:
would be amazing to get one of these hybrids as a juvenile
--solomon
alligator x longnose hybrid:
I so want to get my hands on a few Juvies of those fish!!!!!!!!!!