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Common Name: shortnose gar
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Suttkus (1963); Becker (1983); Page and Burr (1991); Etnier and Starnes (1993).
Size: 83 cm.
Native Range:
Mississippi River basin from southcentral Ohio, northern Indiana and Wisconsin to Montana and south to northern Alabama and Louisiana (Page and Burr 1991).
Nonindigenous Occurrences: This species was first collected in Lake Winnebago, Great Lakes basin, Wisconsin in 1962 (Priegel 1963). It is now also found it the upper and lower Fox River, the lower Wolf River, and in lower Green Bay (Becker 1983).
Means of Introduction: This species likely reached Lake Winnebago via the Wisconsin-Fox Canal, a canal connection from the Mississippi River basin to the Fox River in the Great Lakes basin (Priegel 1963).
Status: Established in Wisconsin (Becker 1983; Page and Burr 1991).
Impact of Introduction: Unknown.
Remarks: None.
Page, L. M., and B. M. Burr. 1991. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. The Peterson Field Guide Series, volume 42. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA.
Priegel, G. R. 1963. Dispersal of the shortnose gar, Lepisosteus platostomus, into the Great Lakes drainage. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 92(2):178.
Other Resources:
Great Lakes Water Life
Fishes of Wisconsin
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Pam Fuller
Contributing Agencies: 
NOAA - GLERL
Revision Date: 12/5/2003 Citation for this information:
Pam Fuller. 2009. Lepisosteus platostomus. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=757> Revision Date: 12/5/2003
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