Lepisosteus oculatus

Taxonavigation

Lepisosteus oculatus

Taxonavigation: Neopterygii
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii

Infraclassis: Holostei
Division: Ginglymodi
Ordo: Lepisosteiformes
Subordo: Lepisosteoidei
Superfamilia: Lepisosteoidea
Familia: Lepisosteidae
Genus: Lepisosteus
Species: L. oculatus

Name

Lepisosteus oculatus Winchell, 1864

• Holotype (unique): UMMZ 55062 (stuffed).

Type locality: Duck Lake, Calhoun County, Michigan, U.S.A.

Etymology: eyed, referring to eye-like spots on body. (From The ETYFish project)

Synonyms

• Lepisosteus (Cylindrosteus) latirostris Girard, 1858
• Lepidosteus (Cylindrosteus) oculatus Winchell, 1864
• Cylindostreus productus Cope, 1865
• Cylindrosteus agassizii Duméril, 1870
• Cylindrosteus bartonii Duméril, 1870
• Cylindrosteus zadockii Duméril, 1870

Vernacular names

čeština: Kostlín skvrnitý
English: Spotted Gar
español: Catán pinto
français: Lépisosté tacheté

References

• Braasch, I., Gehrke, A.R., Smith, J.J., Kawasaki, K., Manousaki, T., Pasquier, J., Amores, A., Desvignes, T., Batzel, P., Catchen, J., Berlin, A.M., Campbell, M.S., Barrell, D., Martin, K.J., Mulley, J.F., Ravi, V., Lee, A.P., Nakamura, T., Chalopin, D., Fan, S., Wcisel, D., Cañestro, C., Sydes, J., Beaudry, F.E.G., Sun, Y., Hertel, J., Beam, M.J., Fasold, M., Ishiyama, M., Johnson, J., Kehr, S., Lara, M., Letaw, J.H., Litman, G.W., Litman, R.T., Mikami, M., Ota, T., Saha, N.R., Williams, L., Stadler, P.F., Wang, H., Taylor, J.S., Fontenot, Q., Ferrara, A., Searle, S.M.J., Aken, B., Yandell, M., Schneider, I., Yoder, J.A., Volff, J.-N., Meyer, A., Amemiya, C.T., Venkatesh, B., Holland, P.W.H., Guiguen, Y., Bobe, J., Shubin, N.H., Di Palma, F., Alföldi, J., Lindblad-Toh, K. & Postlethwait, J.H. 2016. The spotted gar genome illuminates vertebrate evolution and facilitates human-teleost comparisons. Nature Genetics, published online 7 March 2016.DOI: 10.1038/ng.3526Reference page. 
• Winchell, A. 1864. Description of a gar-pike, supposed to be new—Lepidosteus (Cylindrosteus) oculatus. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 16(4): 183–185. BHLReference page. 

Links

• Lepisosteus oculatus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Lepisosteus oculatus in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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