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length, weight, and fin length. They generally have a clutch size close to 30,000, depending on the weight-to-length ratio of the females; larger females bear larger clutch sizes. They spawn in temperatures close to 20 °C (68 °F) in late April to early July. Eggs have a toxic, adhesive coating to help them stick to substrates, and they are deposited onto stones in shallow water, rocky shelves, vegetation, or
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moves towards the mouths of bayous into higher-salinity waters in the afternoon and evening to find this more prevalent prey. Longnose gar then move back up the bayous, into the lower-salinity waters in the morning. Their main competitors are other garfishes, and somewhat commonly, large gar to feed
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lung that supplements gill respiration for breathing both air and water. Referring to gars as primitive fish simply means they have existed for a long time, having evolved over millions of years into a more perfected morphological state, not that the animal is primitive in the sense that it is not
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of the aquatic systems. Because of their long lifespans and older sexual maturity age, factors affecting their reproduction is an issue in preserving them. Overfishing is a large issue for this fish, especially when the fish have not reached sexual maturity due to the female not reaching sexual
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Longnose gar have a typical lifespan of 15–20 years with a maximum reported age of 39. This long lifespan allows the female to sexually mature around 6 years old. Males mature sexually as early as 2 years of age. Longnose gar are sexually dimorphic; the females are larger than the males in body
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on smaller ones. Historically, Native
Americans and early colonists harvested longnose gar as a main food source. Over time, longnose gars have gained in popularity as a sportfish rather than as a food source, but some people consider gar meat a delicacy. Adult longnose gar are considered
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nests. Their hatch time is 7-9 days; young gar stay in vegetation during the first summer of life. Longnose gar reach a typical length of 28–48 inches (71–122 cm), with a maximum length around 6 feet (1.8 m) and 55 lb (25 kg) in weight.
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648:, elongated jaws that form a needle-like snout nearly three times the length of its head, and a row of numerous sharp, cone-shaped teeth on each side of the upper jaw. They typically inhabit freshwater lakes,
637:. 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
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Gars have been referred to as primitive fish or living fossils because they have retained some morphological characteristics of their earliest ancestors, such as a spiral valve intestine, and a highly
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Fossils of the genus dating from 100 million years ago (Mya) have been found in Africa, Asia, Europe, North
America, and South America. In the US, fossils of the modern species date back to the
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were particularly common prey of juvenile gar in Lake Texoma, making up 84% of the diet, with gamefishes accounting for less than 1% of the diet. Juveniles also feed on small crustaceans, such as
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Wiley, E.O. (1976). The phylogeny and biogeography of fossil and recent gars (Actinopterygii: Lepisosteidae). Miscellaneous
Publication, University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History 64.
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near coastal areas, swamps, and sluggish backwaters of rivers and streams. They can breathe both air and water, which allows them to inhabit aquatic environments that are low in oxygen.
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Straube, B. and N. Luccketti. (1996). Jamestown rediscovery 1995 interim report. November 2006. The
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, 55 p.
1240:(H. B. Bigelow, C. M. Cohen, G. W. Mead, D. Merriman, Y. H. Olsen, W. C. Schroeder, L. P. Schultz, and J. Tee-Van, eds.), pp. 61-88. New Haven, CT: Yale University.
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Currently, no management of this species is being conducted, nor is it federally listed as endangered, although some states have reported it as threatened (
1256:(Linnaeus), in Lake Mendota and in several other lakes of southern Wisconsin. Dissertation, the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
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Uhler, P.R. & O. Lugger. (1876). List of fishes of
Maryland. Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries of Maryland, to the General Assembly
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Netsch, Norval F.; Witt, Arthur (1962). "Contributions to the Life
History of the Longnose Gar, (Lepisosteus osseus) in Missouri".
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Johnson, Brian L.; Noltie, Douglas B. (1997). "Demography, Growth, and
Reproductive Allocation in Stream-Spawning Longnose Gar".
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McGrath, P. E.; Hilton, E. J. (2012). "Sexual dimorphism in longnose gar
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Haase, B.L. (1969). An ecological life history of the longnose gar,
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Air-Breathing Fishes: Evolution, Diversity, and Adaptation
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Longnose gar are found along the east coasts of North and
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Lepisosteus osseus (Gar). (n.d.). Animal Diversity Web.
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924:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T191027A130013643.en
1479:"Gar biology and culture: Status and prospects"
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1429:Beard, J. (1889). On the early development of
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1295:Lepisosteus osseus. (n.d.). Discover Fishes.
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1202:"Lepisosteus osseus Linnaeus 1758"
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899:NatureServe.; Lyons, T.J. (2019).
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1050:"longnose gar Lepisosteus osseus"
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1078:"Lepisosteus osseus"
1025:"Lepisosteus osseus"
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556:Lepidosteus troostii
548:Lepisosteus treculii
516:Lepidosteus milberti
404:Lepisosteus lineatus
372:Lepisosteus gracilis
268:Psalisostomus osseus
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40:New England Aquarium
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532:Lepidosteus smithii
500:Lepidosteus lamarii
492:Lepidosteus horatii
484:Lepidosteus harlani
444:Lepidosteus ayresii
436:Lepidosteus otarius
428:Lepidosteus crassus
364:Lepisosteus oxyurus
348:Sarchirus argenteus
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1254:Lepisosteus osseus
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1286:(Crumpton, 1971).
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