Cuban gar, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 14 relations: Alligator gar, Ammonia, Brackish water, Cuba, Fish, FishBase, Gar, Isla de la Juventud, Largemouth bass, Neontology, Nitrate, Organogenesis, Trophic level, Tropical gar.

2. Freshwater fish of Cuba
3. Lepisosteidae

Alligator gar

The alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) is a euryhaline ray-finned fish in the clade Ginglymodi of the infraclass Holostei, being most closely related to the bowfins. Cuban gar and alligator gar are Apex predators and Lepisosteidae.

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Ammonia

Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula.

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Brackish water

Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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FishBase

FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish).

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Gar

Gars are an ancient group of ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae. Cuban gar and Gar are Lepisosteidae.

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Isla de la Juventud

Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth) is the second-largest Cuban island (after Cuba's mainland) and the seventh-largest island in the West Indies (after mainland Cuba itself, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Andros Island).

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Largemouth bass

The largemouth bass (Micropterus nigricans) is a carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico.

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Neontology

Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.

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Nitrate

Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the chemical formula.

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Organogenesis

Organogenesis is the phase of embryonic development that starts at the end of gastrulation and continues until birth.

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Trophic level

The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food web.

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Tropical gar

The tropical gar (Atractosteus tropicus) is a species of fish from Central America, where it is found in the Pacific and Atlantic drainages from southern Mexico to Costa Rica. Cuban gar and tropical gar are Lepisosteidae.

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See also

Freshwater fish of Cuba

• Alepidomus
• Awaous banana
• Barred topminnow
• Cuban gambusia
• Cuban gar
• Cuban limia
• Girardinus falcatus
• Girardinus metallicus
• Lucifuga dentata
• Lucifuga simile
• Lucifuga subterranea
• Lucifuga teresinarum
• Mangrove gambusia

Lepisosteidae

• Alligator gar
• Atractosteus
• Atractosteus africanus
• Atractosteus grandei
• Cuban gar
• Cuneatus
• Florida gar
• Gar
• Grandemarinus
• Herreraichthys
• Lepisosteus
• Longnose gar
• Masillosteus
• Nhanulepisosteus
• Oniichthys
• Shortnose gar
• Spotted gar
• Tropical gar

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_gar

Also known as Atractosteus tristoechus.