---
title: "Niszczuka długonosa"
description: "Lepisosteus osseus — Ryby. The longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus), also known as longnose garpike or billy gar, is a ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/longnose-gar
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Niszczuka długonosa

> Lepisosteus osseus — Ryby. The longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus), also known as longnose garpike or billy gar, is a ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae.

- Scientific name: *Lepisosteus osseus*
- Category: `fish` (Ryby)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki)
- iNaturalist observations: 5782
- Wikidata: [Q1431272](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1431272)
- iNaturalist taxon: [58609](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/58609)

## Names

- en: Longnose Gar
- de: Gemeiner Knochenhecht
- es: Catán aguja
- fr: Lépisostée osseux
- nl: Kaaimansnoek
- pl: Niszczuka długonosa

## Countries with the most observations

US (4187), CA (838), MX (14)

## Summary

The longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus), also known as longnose garpike or billy gar, is a ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae. The genus may have been present in North America for about 100 million years. References are made to gars being a primitive group of bony fish because they have retained some primitive features, such as a spiral valve intestine, but they are not primitive in the sense of not being fully developed. 
They have an olive brown to green, torpedo-shaped body armored with ganoid scales, elongated jaws that form a needle-like snout nearly three times the length of its head, and a row of numerous…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longnose_gar

## Photo

![Niszczuka długonosa](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/longnose-gar/medium.jpg)

Photo: Nick Loveland · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/38161110

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/longnose-gar?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).