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Gar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (704 words) |
 | In American English the name gar (or garpike) is strictly applied to members of the Lepisosteidae, a family including seven living species in two genera that inhabit fresh, brackish, and occasionally marine, waters of eastern North America, Central America, and the Caribbean islands. |
| In British English the name gar was originally used for a species of needlefish, Belone belone, found in the North Atlantic. |
| The gars are members of the Lepisosteiformes (or Semionotiformes), an ancient order of primitive ray-finned fish; fossil gars are known from the Permian onwards. |
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