Atractosteus is a genus of gars in the family Lepisosteidae, with three species. The genus first appeared in the Campanian in the Late Cretaceous.
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changed by E.O. Wiley in 1976 to Atractosteus spatula to recognize two distinct taxa of gars. Synonyms of Atractosteus spatula include: Lesisosteus [sic]...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Atractosteus tristoechus. The Cuban gar (Atractosteus tristoechus), also known as the manjuarí, is a fish in the...
genus Atractosteus which includes modern day species of gars such as the giant alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) and the tropical gar (Atractosteus tropicus)...
Atractosteus africanus is a potentially dubious species of gar from the Cretaceous period of Niger and France. The species possibly lived until the end...
genus Atractosteus, and is generally placed as its sister genus, a sister to Atractosteus and Lepisosteus, or even as a species within Atractosteus as per...
to have coexisted with species belonging to both extant gar genera (Atractosteus and Lepisosteus) in known localities. The type species of the genus was...
piscine defense: The scales of Arapaima gigas, Latimeria chalumnae and Atractosteus spatula". Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials...
long-snouted fish 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...
(tropical gar, Cuban gar, and alligator gar) are now assigned to the genus Atractosteus. According to Grande, 2010. In addition, indeterminate record is known...
Adaptation. Academic Press. pp. 1–10. ISBN 978-0-12-294860-2. "Alligator Gar (Atractosteus spatula)". 2011. Retrieved October 7, 2019. "Lepisosteus osseus Linnaeus...
armour gurnard, a fish occurring on the continental slope of Australia. Atractosteus spatula (Lacépède, 1803), Alligator gar, North American freshwater fish...
(Lepisosteidae), represented by seven living species in two genera (Atractosteus, Lepisosteus). The earliest members of the clade, which are putative...
(1 April 2013). "Structure and fracture resistance of alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) armored fish scales". Acta Biomaterialia. 9 (4): 5876–5889....
piscine defense: The scales of Arapaima gigas, Latimeria chalumnae and Atractosteus spatula". Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials...
Wendell (2011). "Early Growth and Survival of Larval Alligator Gar, Atractosteus spatula, Reared on Artificial Floating Feed with or without a Live Artemia...
largest entirely freshwater fish in North America, is the alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula). The largest gar ever known, caught in Louisiana in 1925, was...
indicates that it is more closely related to the extant Lepisosteus and Atractosteus. The short snout was likely evolved as a specialized trait for catching...
deserves its reputation as a river monster. Featured animals Alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) Smallmouth buffalo...
5 in) Alligator Gar Atractosteus spatula 300 cm (118 in) Cuban Gar Atractosteus tristoechus 200 cm (78.5 in) Tropical Gar Atractosteus tropicus 150 cm (59 in)...
"Microstructural and geometric influences in the protective scales of Atractosteus spatula". Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 13 (125): 20160595...
No No No Eastmanosteus pustulosus † ? No No No Yes No No No No No No Atractosteus spatula No No Yes Yes No No No No No No No Periophthalmus papilio Yes...
Thunnus alalunga Y Y Alewife Alosa pseudoharengus Y Y Y Alligator gar Atractosteus spatula Y Y Largest exclusively freshwater fish found in North America...
wetland is its local feeding and reproduction area) and the tropical gar (Atractosteus tropicus) a living fossil brought under protection by Costa Rican legislation...
native. Species include: Alabama shad (Alosa alabamae) Alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) American eel (Anguilla rostrata) American gizzard shad (Dorosoma...
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