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Atractosteus tropicus in Honduras
Tropical gar

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Atractosteus tropicus   Gill, 1863
Family:	Lepisosteidae (Gars)			picture (Attro_u0.jpg) by Pauly, I.
Order:	Lepisosteiformes  (gars)
Class:	Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
FishBase name:	Tropical gar
Max. size:	125 cm TL (male/unsexed; Ref. 36722); max. published weight: 2,890 g (Ref. 40637)
Environment:	demersal
Climate:	tropical
Global Importance:
Resilience:	Very low, minimum population doubling time more than 14 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.)
Distribution:	Central America: Caribbean and Pacific drainages of southern Mexico and Central America.
Biology:	Inhabit backwaters and slow moving sections of rivers and lakes. Often found in the warm stagnant waters of the lowland. Visible on the surface and resemble floating logs. Enter shallow lakes at the beginning of the dry season to spawn and known to reproduce also in June and July when rains are heaviest and rivers flood their banks providing an ideal spawning habitat of flooded vegetation. Large schools form to cast thousands of eggs in a gelatinous mass in the shallow waters. The adults return again to the river leaving the fry amongst the flooded vegetation (Ref. 36880). The eggs are poisonous to eat (Ref. 4537)
Threatened:	Not Evaluated, see IUCN Red List  , (Ref. 36508)
Dangerous:	poisonous to eat , Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea and W.B. Scott. 1991
Coordinator:	Wiley, Ed
Main Ref:	Ferraris, C.J. Jr.. 2003. (Ref. 36722)
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Honduras country information
Common names:	[ No common name ]		Ref:
Status:	native		Ref:
Salinity:	freshwater
Uses:	no uses
Country Information:	www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ho.html
Occurrences:	Occurrences    Point map
Main Ref:	Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea and W.B. Scott, 1991
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