Alligator gar
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The alligator gar is a euryhaline ray-finned fish in the clade Ginglymodi of the infraclass Holostei, being most closely related to the bowfins. It is the largest species in the gar family, and is amo
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Preserved display of an alligator gar head
Gill of a juvenile gar
Alligator gar caught in Moon Lake, Mississippi, March 1910
Fish scale
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A fish scale is a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish. The skin of most jawed fishes is covered with these protective scales, which can also provide effective camouflage through the
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…occurrences, they can also be black, seen in gars that have a high level of melanin. Their scales are not like the scales of other fishes; rather, they are ganoid scales, which are bone-like, rhomboidal-shaped scales, often with serrated edges, and covered by an enamel-like substance. Ganoid scales are nearly impenetrable…
Cycloid scales cover these teleost fish (rohu)
Lobe-finned fishes, like this preserved coelacanth, have elasmoid scales.
The scales of this spotted gar appear glassy due to ganoine.
The alligator gar has a tough armouring of rhomboidal-shaped ganoid scales.