Longnose Gar
Lepisosteus osseus
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 3,222
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus), also known as longnose garpike or billy gar, is a ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae. The genus may have been present in North America for about 100 million years. References are made to gars being a primitive group of bony fish because they have retained some primitive features, such as a spiral valve intestine, but they are not primitive in the sense of not being fully developed.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Longnose gar”.