Longnose Gar
Lepisosteus osseus
About This Fish

The Longnose Gar is found throughout much of central and eastern North America, including the Mobile Basin, Tennessee, Cumberland river drainages. They live in a wide range of habitats in pools and backwaters. Like all gars, they have a hard protective scales (ganoid scales), are ambush predators, and are able to gulp air for supplemental oxygen. As the common name suggests, Longnose Gars have long, narrow snout.

Conasauga – 03150101, Coosawattee – 03150102, Oostanaula – 03150103, Middle Coosa – 03150106, Etowah – 03150104, Upper Coosa – 03150105, Lower Coosa – 03150107, Lower Tallapoosa – 03150110, Upper Alabama – 03150201, Cahaba – 03150202, Middle Alabama – 03150203, Lower Alabama – 03150204, Upper Tombigbee – 03160101, Buttahatchee – 03160103, Luxapallila – 03160105, Middle Tombigbee-Lubbub – 03160106, Sipsey – 03160107, Noxubee – 03160108, Mulberry – 03160109, Sipsey Fork – 03160110, Locust – 03160111, Upper Black Warrior – 03160112, Lower Black Warrior – 03160113, Middle Tombigbee-Chickasaw – 03160201, Sucarnoochee – 03160202, Lower Tombigbee – 03160203, Mobile Tensaw – 03160204, Mobile Bay – 03160205, Rockcastle – 05130102, Upper Cumberland-Lake Cumberland – 05130103, South Fork Cumberland – 05130104, Obey – 05130105, Caney – 05130108, Lower Cumberland-Old Hickory Lake – 05130201, Lower Cumberland-Sycamore – 05130202, Stones – 05130203, Lower Cumberland – 05130205, Red – 05130206, North Fork Holston – 06010101, Watauga, North Carolina, Tennessee – 06010103, Holston – 06010104, Upper French Board – 06010105, Pigeon – 06010106, Lower French Board – 06010107, Nolichucky – 06010108, Watts Bar Lake – 06010201, Lower Little Tennessee – 06010204, Upper Clinch, Tennessee, Virginia – 06010205, Powell – 06010206, Lower Clinch – 06010207, Emory – 06010208, Middle Tennessee-Chickamauga – 06020001, Hiwassee – 06020002, Sequatchie – 06020004, Guntersville Lake – 06030001, Wheeler Lake – 06030002, Upper Elk – 06030003, Lower Elk – 06030004, Pickwick Lake – 06030005, Bear – 06030006, Lower Tennessee-Beech – 06040001, Upper Duck – 06040002, Lower Duck – 06040003, Lower Tennessee – 06040006, Buffalo – 06040004, Kentucky Lake – 06040005