Biology:Atractosteus
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Short description: Genus of fishes
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| Alligator gar | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Ginglymodi |
| Order: | Lepisosteiformes |
| Family: | Lepisosteidae |
| Tribe: | Lepisosteini |
| Genus: | Atractosteus (Rafinesque, 1820) |
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Atractosteus is a genus of gars in the family Lepisosteidae, with three species. The genus first appeared in the Campanian in the Late Cretaceous.
Systematics
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Species
Extant species
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Atractosteus spatula Lacépède, 1803 | Alligator gar | Southern United States |
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Atractosteus tristoechus Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801 | Cuban gar | Western Cuba and the Isla de la Juventud |
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Atractosteus tropicus T. N. Gill, 1863 | Tropical gar | Southern Mexico to Costa Rica |
Fossils
- †Atractosteus africanus (Arambourg & Joleaud, 1943)[1]
- †Atractosteus grandei (Brownstein & Lyson, 2022)[4]
- †Atractosteus emmonsi Hay 1929
- †Atractosteus lapidosus Hay 1919
- †Atractosteus messelensis Grande 2010
- †Atractosteus occidentalis (Leidy 1856) non Wiley 1976
- †Atractosteus simplex (Leidy 1873)
Former fossil genera:
- †Atractosteus cuneatus (Cope 1884) non (Cope 1878) (now in Cuneatus)
- †Atractosteus falipoui (Cavin & Brito 2001) (now in Oniichthys)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cavin, Lionel; Martin, Michel; Valentin, Xavier (1996). "Occurrence of Atractosteus africanus (actinopterygii, lepisosteidae) in the early Campanien of Ventabren (Bouches-du-Rhône, France). Paleobiogeographical implications". Revue de Paléobiologie 15 (1): 1–7.
- ↑ Froese, R.; Pauly, D. (2017). "Lepisosteidae". http://www.fishbase.se/Summary/FamilySummary.php?ID=34. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ↑ Van Der Laan, Richard; Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ronald (11 November 2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa 3882 (1): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- ↑ Brownstein, Chase Doran; Lyson, Tyler R. (2022). "Giant gar from directly above the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary suggests healthy freshwater ecosystems existed within thousands of years of the asteroid impact". Biology Letters 18 (6): 20220118. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2022.0118. PMID 35702983.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Atractosteus in FishBase. June 2011 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q143251 entry
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