#2288 · 🐟 fish
Longnose Gar
🇳🇱 Beensnoek ·Lepisosteus osseus
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what is it?
The longnose gar ( Lepisosteus osseus ) is a primitive ray-finned fish of the gar family. It is also known as the needlenose gar . L. osseus is found along the east coast of North and Central America in freshwater lakes and as far west as Kansas and Texas and southern New Mexico. The gar have been present in North America for about 100 million years.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 5,914 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Longnose Gar
- Nederlands
- Beensnoek
- scientific name
- Lepisosteus osseus
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Lepisosteiformes
- family
- Lepisosteidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 5,914
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Lepisosteidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 58609, Wikidata Q1431272, GBIF 2346701, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.