Lepisosteus

Lepisosteus

Slender gars
Temporal range: 77.5–0 Ma Campanian to present
Longnose gar, Lepisosteus osseus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Lepisosteiformes
Family: Lepisosteidae
Genus: Lepisosteus
Lacepède, 1803
Species

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Synonyms[1][2]
  • Acus Catesby, 1771 non Adams & Adams, 1853 non Chen, Yang & Wilson, 1989 non De Bomare, 1791 non Gray, 1847 non Humphrey, 1797 non Müller, 1766 non Müller, 1774 non Plumier, 1803 non (Swainson, 1839)
  • Lepidosteus Koenig, 1825 [Agassiz, 1836; Lacépède, 1803]
  • Pneumatosteus Cope, 1869
  • Clastichthys Whitley, 1940
  • Clastes Cope, 1873 non Walckenaer, 1833
  • Cylindrosteus (Rafinesque, 1820)
  • Lepisosteus (Cylindrosteus) Rafinesque, 1820
  • Psalidostomus Minding, 1832
  • Sarchirus Rafinesque, 1818
  • Sarcochirus Agassiz, 1846
  • Squammosa Catesby, 1771

Lepisosteus is a genus of gars in the family Lepisosteidae only known across North America.

Species

The currently recognized species are:

Two longnose gars

References

  1. "Lepisosteidae" Archived 2021-05-13 at the Wayback Machine (PDF). Deeplyfish- fishes of the world. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  2. "Class Osteichthyes," in Estes and Berberian, 1970, p.3
Taxon identifiers
  • Wikidata: Q133479
  • Wikispecies: Lepisosteus
  • ADW: Lepisosteus
  1. ↑ Froese, R.; Pauly, D. (2017). "Lepisosteidae". FishBase version (02/2017). Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "Lepisosteidae" (PDF). Deeplyfish- fishes of the world. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2017.

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