Product Description
Our Plastic Longnose Gar This hard plastic and colorful longnose gar toy is well-made and realistic in its shape, detailed scales, and coloration. Wonderfully proportioned, 5 1/2 inches long, it will fit nicely into a pond, river, or lake diorama. Our longnose gar may be useful for a school project or as a party favor or novelty item. Check out our other gar and fish toys and gifts.
The longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus) is a primitive ray-finned fish of the gar family. It is also known as the needlenose gar. L. osseus is found along the east coast of North and Central America in freshwater lakes and as far west as Kansas and Texas and southern New Mexico. The gar have been present in North America for about 100 million years.