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Taxon: Family Lepisosteidae Agassiz, 1832 - gars (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  Agassiz, 1832, orth. corr.
Original name & rank:  Agassiz, 1832: 144. ["Lepidostei"].
Subsequent spelling:  Guichenot, 1839: 2.
Subsequent publication:  Bonaparte, 1835: [8]. ["Lepidosteidae"].
Incorrect (rank-group) authorship:  Cuvier, 1824: 307. ["les lépisostées de ..."; no family-group name].

Attributes

Justified emendation (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.2] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 28 ("corrected").

Types

Type: Lepisosteus (Genus) Lacépède, 1803 Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 55. [implicit]

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: kaaimansnoeken Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: gars Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 123; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
: gars Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2452.
: garpikes and alligator gars Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979: 681.
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