Atractosteus

Atractosteus is a genus of gars in the family Lepisosteidae, with three species.

Atractosteus
Atractosteus strausi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Lepisosteiformes
Family:	Lepisosteidae
Genus:	Atractosteus (Rafinesque, 1820)
Species
See text
Synonyms[1][2]
Lepisosteus (Atractosteus) Rafinesque 1820 Litholepis Rafinesque 1818

Atractosteus africanus fossils

Systematics

Lepisosteidae	Atractosteus   A. tropicus       A. tristoechus     A. spatula       Lepisosteus     L. oculatus     L. platyrhincus         L. osseus     L. platostomus

Extant species

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Atractosteus spatula Lacépède, 1803	Alligator gar	Southern United States
	Atractosteus tristoechus Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801	Cuban gar	Western Cuba and the Isla de la Juventud
	Atractosteus tropicus T. N. Gill, 1863	Tropical gar	Southern Mexico to Costa Rica

Fossils

• †Atractosteus africanus (Arambourg & Joleaud, 1943) [3]
• †Atractosteus cuneatus (Cope 1884) non (Cope 1878)
• †Atractosteus emmonsi Hay 1929
• †Atractosteus falipoui (Cavin & Brito 2001)
• †Atractosteus lapidosus Hay 1919
• †Atractosteus messelensis Grande 2010
• †Atractosteus occidentalis (Leidy 1856) non Wiley 1976
• †Atractosteus simplex (Leidy 1873)

References

1. Froese, R.; Pauly, D. (2017). "Lepisosteidae". FishBase version (02/2017). Retrieved 18 May 2017.
2. Van Der Laan, Richard; Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ronald (11 November 2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (1): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
3. Cavin, Lionel; Martin, Michel; Valentin, Xavier (1996). "Occurrence of Atractosteus africanus (actinopterygii, lepisosteidae) in the early Campanien of Ventabren (Bouches-du-Rhône, France). Paleobiogeographical implications". Revue de Paléobiologie. 15 (1): 1–7.

• Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Atractosteus in FishBase. June 2011 version.