Atractosteus
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| Atractosteus | |
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| Atractosteus strausi | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Lepisosteiformes |
| Family: | Lepisosteidae |
| Genus: | Atractosteus Rafinesque, 1820 |
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Atractosteus is a genus of gars in the family Lepisosteidae.
There are three species:
- Atractosteus spatula (Lacépède, 1803) (Alligator gar)
- Atractosteus tristoechus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Cuban gar)
- Atractosteus tropicus T. N. Gill, 1863 (Tropical gar)
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Atractosteus in FishBase. June 2011 version.
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