Spotted gar

Spotted gar ( Lepisosteus oculatus )

The spotted gar ( Lepisosteus oculatus ) is a solitary, up to 1.20 meter long predator. The fish are 60 centimeters to 1.12 meters long, at 4.4 kg and reach an age of 18 years. Your body is brownish to olive green with an irregular pattern of dark spots, the sides are lighter than the back, the belly almost white. Like all gars, the caudal fin is rounded and slightly heterocercal. Dorsal and anal fin are symmetrically just before the caudal peduncle opposite, they have 7-9 fin rays.

Dissemination

He lives in the basin of the Mississippi River and other rivers that empty into the Gulf of Mexico, from the extreme western Florida to Nueces River in Corpus Christi. They also go in brackish water.