The gars are an ancient order Lepisosteiformes (or Semionotiformes) of primitive ray-finned fish; fossil gars are known from the Permian onwards. Orders See text The Actinopterygii are the ray-finned fish. ... FOSSIL is a standard for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under DOS. FOSSIL stands for Fido Opus Seadog Standard Interface Layer and was made by a group of Fidonet sysops to make their software work on different machines. ... The Permian is a geologic period that extends from about 280 to 248 million years before the present (mya). ...

The living members of the order are all in a single family Lepisosteidae with seven species in two genera. While fossils indicate that some extinct species were marine, the living types are all in the fresh waters of eastern North America, Central America, and the Caribbean islands. For the village on the Isle of Wight, see Freshwater, Isle of Wight. ... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is the third largest continent in area and in population after Eurasia and Africa. ... Central America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. ... The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ...

Gar bodies are elongate, heavily armored with ganoid scales, and fronted by similarly elongate jaws filled with long sharp teeth. Tails are heterocercal, and the dorsal fins are close to the tail. Dorsal Fin of the Orca A dorsal fin is a fin located on the backs of fishes, whales, dolphins and porpoises. ...

All the gars can be large, but the alligator gar Atractosteus spatula is the champion, specimens having been recorded up to 3 meters in length.

Gars tend to be slow, preferring shallow weedy areas of rivers, lakes, bayous, but they are voracious predators, catching fish and crustaceans with their needle-like teeth. For the Second World War frigate class, see River class frigate The Murray River in Australia A waterfall on the Ova da Fedoz, Switzerland A river is a large natural waterway. ... A lake is a body of water surrounded by land. ... A bayou (pronounced or ) is a small, slow-moving stream or creek formed in the former bed of a river. ...

Gar flesh is edible, and sometimes available in markets, but unlike the sturgeons that they resemble, the gars' roe is poisonous. Sturgeon (Acipenser) is a genus of fishes, of which some twenty different species are known, from European, Asiatic and North American rivers. ... Salmon roe at the Shiogama seafood market in Japan Wiktionary has a definition of: Roe Roe is the fully ripe egg masses of fish and certain marine invertebrates, such as sea urchins. ...

Genus Atractosteus:

• Alligator gar Atractosteus spatula (305 cm)
• Cuban gar Atractosteus tristoechus (200 cm)
• Tropical gar Atractosteus tropicus (125 cm)

Genus Lepisosteus: Binomial name Atractosteus tropicus Gill, 1863 The tropical gar (Atractosteus tropicus) is a species of gar found in the waters of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, reported to reach lengths of up to 1. ...

• Spotted gar Lepisosteus oculatus (112 cm)
• Longnose gar Lepisosteus osseus (200 cm)
• Shortnose gar Lepisosteus platostomus (88 cm)
• Florida gar Lepisosteus platyrhincus (132 cm)