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Home Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Actinopterygii Order Semionotiformes

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2009/11/22 04:54:06.365 US/Eastern

By Tanya Dewey

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Class: Actinopterygii

Order: Semionotiformes

Members of this Order

The gars is a small group of freshwater fish found in North America. There are 7 species in 1 family. Gars are large, dangerous looking fish with elongate, streamlined bodies, and long mouths lined with lots of sharp teeth. Gars are heavily armored with thick scales. They live in areas of shallow, weedy, and slow-moving water. These habitats often have very low levels of oxygen in the water, but gars have the ability to gulp air into their swim bladders, which act like lungs. Gars are capable of bursts of speed and are voracious predators, eating anything they can catch.

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Tanya Dewey (author), Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.

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To cite this page: Dewey, T. 2007. "Semionotiformes" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed November 23, 2009 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Semionotiformes.html.

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