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Order                Lepisosteiformes

 

Family               Lepisosteidae

 

Extant Species

Genus   Atractosteus (Rafinesque 1820)

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Extinct Species (images coming soon)

Genus   Lepisosteus

             L. opertus (Estes 1964)

             L. cuneatus (Cope 1878)

             L. indicus (Woodward 1908)

             L. fimbriatus (Wood 1846)

            

Genus Atractosteus

             A. strausi (Kinkelin 1884)

             A. simplex (Leidy 1873)

             A. africanus (Arambourg & Joleaud 1943)

             A. occidentalis (Leidy 1856)

             A. atrox (Leidy 1873)

            

Genus  Masillosteus

             M. kelleri (Micklich & Gottfried 2001)

 

Genus  Obaichthys

             O. decoratus

             O. laevis

 

Hybrid Forms (currently known, images coming soon)

             Atractosteus spatula x Lepisosteus osseus

             Atractosteus spatula x Lepisosteus platostomus

             Atractosteus spatula x Lepisosteus oculatus

            

             Lepisosteus osseus x Lepisosteus platostomus

 

Genus   Lepisosteus (Lacepède 1803)