Gar

Gar

Name gar in American English is members of family Lepisosteidae, the most primitive predatory species. (In Old English, word gar meaning “spear”). Gar have lived in North American water for 50 million years. Extant members of this family were found in North and Central America and Cuba, represented by two genera and seven species.

Unlike other gars, Alliagator Gar is the most impressed with a dual rows of teeth in upper jaw and its huge size (The largest taken is about 166kg).

 

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Family Lepisoteidae:
Genus Atractosteus
Atractosteus spatula (Lacépède, 1803) (Alligator gar)
Atractosteus tristoechus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Cuban gar)
Atractosteus tropicus Gill, 1863 (Tropical gar)
Genus Lepisosteus
Lepisosteus oculatus Winchell, 1864 (Spotted gar)
Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Longnose gar)
Lepisosteus platostomus Rafinesque, 1820 (Shortnose gar)
Lepisosteus platyrhincus DeKay, 1842 (Florida gar)