Lepisosteus osseus

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Noun1.Lepisosteus osseus - primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teethLepisosteus osseus - primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
ganoid, ganoid fish - primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering
genus Lepisosteus, Lepisosteus - type genus of the Lepisosteidae: freshwater gars
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Brood care of longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus) by smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui).
Functions of fish skin: flexural stiffness and steady swimming of longnose gar, Lepisosteus osseus. J.
grandis occupies a unique trophic niche in assemblages of high-salinity reaches of the Lower Pecos, where native piscivores such as Micropterus salmoides and Lepisosteus osseus have not been observed in recent surveys (Cheek and Taylor, 2015; East, 2015).
elongatus included: Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula), Spotted Gar (Lepisosteus oculatus), Longnose Gar (Lepisosteus osseus), Gizzard Shad (Dorosoma cepedianum), Threadfin Shad (Dorosoma petenense), Central Stoneroller (Campostoma anomalum), Blacktail Shiner (Cyprinella venusta), Whitetail Shiner (Cyprinella galacturus), River Carpsucker (Carpiodes carpio), Quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus), Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio), Smallmouth Buffalo (Ictiobus bubalus).
Mercury concentrations in the muscle tissue of Longnose Gar Lepisosteus osseus in coastal North Carolina with additional contributions to the Life History, p 39.
Eight species found in Big Creek were absent from its tributaries: Longnose Gar (Lepisosteus osseus), Gizzard Shad (Dorosoma cepedianum), Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella), Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), Bighead Carp (H.
Champlain described what is likely a Lake Champlain gar pike (Lepisosteus osseus), as being five feet long, with a body as thick as his thigh, and a head the size of two fists.
For example, suppose the name Halecostomi had been defined as referring to the most inclusive clade comprising Amia calva Linnaeus 1766 and Perca fluviatilis Linnaeus 1758 but not Lepisosteus osseus Linnaeus 1758.
A series of fortuitous events allowed us to serendipitously determine the exact growth in size of an individual longnose gar, Lepisosteus osseus, from Lake Texoma, Oklahoma-Texas, from the day the egg was spawned and fertilized in the wild, until 166 days later when the juvenile, clearly of recruited size, was recovered from an outdoor ornamental pond where it had been housed throughout the summer-autumn growing season.
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