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the gar-pike family, comprising elongated fishes covered with scales of stony hardness, which are extended into imbricated spines on the first rays of all the fins; about 25 species, all American, are known. The genus Lepidosteus, containing the gar fishes of the Northern lakes, Western and Southern rivers, is characterized by elongated slightly unequal jaws, which are furnished over their whole inner surface with rasp-like teeth, and a row of long, pointed teeth along their edges.