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11-May-2013

Lepisosteus gracilis Richardson, 1836

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Considered a synonym of Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)

  • Grande, L. 2010. "An empirical synthetic pattern study of gars (Lepisoteiformes) and closely related species, based mostly on skeletal anatomy. The resurrection of Holostei". American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Special Publication. (6):1-871 (ffm00298)

Original description as Lepisosteus gracilis:

  • Richardson, John. 1836. "The Fish". Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the zoology of the northern parts of British America: containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions, under the command of Sir John Franklin, R.N. J. Bentley, London. 3:1-327 (ffm00246)