• Lepisosteus is a genus of gars in the family Lepisosteidae. Lepisosteus is known to be a freshwater fish. However, they do have the ability to survive...
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    name Esox, which is for pike, was later changed to Lepisosteus, the genus for slender gars. Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758), the scientific name for...
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    Genus Lepisosteus Linnaeus, 1758 †Lepisosteus bemisi Grande, 2010 †Lepisosteus cominatoi Santos, 1984 †Lepisosteus fimbriatus (Wood 1846) †Lepisosteus indicus...
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    "Lepisosteus spatula". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved May 17, 2013. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2005). "Lepisosteus spatula"...
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    media related to Lepisosteus oculatus. Wikispecies has information related to Lepisosteus oculatus. Animal Diversity Web: Lepisosteus oculatus spotted...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lepisosteus platyrhincus. The Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus) is a species of gar found in the US from the...
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    Rivers). In Greek, Lepisosteus translates to "bony scale", and platostomus translates to "broad mouth". NatureServe (2013). "Lepisosteus platostomus". IUCN...
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  • gar genera (Atractosteus and Lepisosteus) in known localities. The type species of the genus was described as "Lepisosteus" cuneatus by Edward Drinker...
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    Spotted gar, Lepisosteus oculatus...
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    journals clarifies that Chaoufaou refers to gar (or gar pike), specifically Lepisosteus osseus (the longnose gar). An 1819 report in the Plattsburgh Republican...
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    (Lepisosteidae), represented by seven living species in two genera (Atractosteus, Lepisosteus). The earliest members of the clade, which are putative "semionotiforms"...
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  • that appears to be more closely related to extant gar (Atractosteus and Lepisosteus) than to other fossil gar, and it is thus placed in the same tribe (Lepisosteini)...
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    (Rafinesque, 1820) Type species Esox spatula Lacépède, 1803 Species See text Synonyms Lepisosteus (Atractosteus) Rafinesque 1820 Litholepis Rafinesque 1818...
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    as Caribbean coastal range, not shown) Synonyms Lepisosteus tristoechus tropicus (Gill 1863) Lepisosteus tropicus (Gill 1863) ?Atractosteus bocourti Duméril...
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    Nhanulepisosteus (nhanu, Mixteca for "old" + Lepisosteus) is an extinct genus of gar known from the Late Jurassic of Oaxaca, Mexico. It contains a single...
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  • Batoidea unknown unknown unknown Osteichthyes Semionotoidea Lepisosteidae Lepisosteus sp. Amioidea Amiidae Platacodon nanus Reptilia Chelonia Dermatemydidae...
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    Bloch & Schneider 1801 Synonyms Esox tristoechus Bloch & Schneider 1801 Lepisosteus tristoechus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) Lepidosteus manjuari Poey 1853...
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  • sunfish (Lepomis megalotis) Longnose darter (Percina nasuta) Longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus) Lowland topminnow (Fundulus blairae) Mexican tetra (Astyanax...
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  • (43 in) Spotted Gar Lepisosteus oculatus 70 cm (27.5 in) Longnose Gar Lepisosteus osseus 200 cm (78.5 in) Florida Gar Lepisosteus platyrhincus 70 cm (27...
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  • is generally placed as its sister genus, a sister to Atractosteus and Lepisosteus, or even as a species within Atractosteus as per Grande (2010), although...
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    range: Early Jurassic–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhynchus) (Lepisosteidae) Fossil of Scheenstia maximus (Lepidotidae)...
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  • (Channa marulius) Butterfly peacock bass (Cichla ocellaris) Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus) Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) Alligator...
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    Lepisosteus platostomus...
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  • come across sturgeons.[citation needed] Historically, longnose gar, Lepisosteus osseus, had a naturally reproducing population in the lake.: 3–4  George...
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    from the Antlers Formation. The fossil evidence suggests that the gar Lepisosteus was the most common vertebrate in this region. The early mammals known...
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  • Atractosteus spatula Spotted gar, Lepisosteus oculatus Longnose gar, Lepisosteus osseus Shortnose gar, Lepisosteus platostomus Order: Cypriniformes, Family:...
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    its anatomy indicates that it is more closely related to the extant Lepisosteus and Atractosteus. The short snout was likely evolved as a specialized...
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    of Pachyrhinosaurus included the actinopterygian fishes Amia fragosa, Lepisosteus, Belonostomus, Paralbula casei, and Platacodon nanus, the mosasaur Plioplatecarpus...
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  • the California fairy shrimp, a shrimp species native to California Lepisosteus occidentalis, a gar that lived from the late Cretaceous to Eocene. List...
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    (Anisian)–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Possible Permian records Spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus) Macrosemimimus fegerti (Semionotiformes) from the Upper Jurassic...
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