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Genus of fishes
Atractosteus africanus fossils
Atractosteus gars in the family Lepisosteidae , with three species.
Systematics [ ]
Lepisosteidae
Atractosteus
A. tropicus
A. tristoechus
A. spatula
Lepisosteus
L. oculatus
L. platyrhincus
Species [ ] Extant species [ ]
Image
Scientific name
Common name
Distribution
Atractosteus spatula Lacépède , 1803Alligator gar
Southern United States
Atractosteus tristoechus Bloch & J. G. Schneider , 1801Cuban gar
Western Cuba and the Isla de la Juventud
Atractosteus tropicus T. N. Gill , 1863Tropical gar
Southern Mexico to Costa Rica
Fossils [ ] †Atractosteus africanus (Arambourg & Joleaud, 1943) [3]
†(Cope 1884) non (Cope 1878)
†Hay 1929
†(Cavin & Brito 2001)
†Hay 1919
†Grande 2010
†(Leidy 1856) non Wiley 1976
†(Leidy 1873) References [ ]
^ Froese, R.; Pauly, D. (2017). "Lepisosteidae" . FishBase version (02/2017). 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 . ^ 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.
Neoginglymodi
Lepisosteiformes
† Lepidotidae Lepisosteoidei
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