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Amiidae
bowfin
Amia calva
A freshwater predator from Jurassic lineages
- Tropical
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- North America
- West Asia
- Elongated
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Elongated
Largebowfin is a freshwater fish of North America. The species occupies freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 109 cm.
- Class
- Gars and Bowfins
- Order
- Bowfins
- Family
- Amiidae
- Genus
- Amia
- Maximum length
- 109 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- North America: from the Pearl River in Louisiana and Mississippi, USA to the Florida Peninsula, and the rivers draining to the Atlantic Ocean in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, USA (Ref. 132277 ). Introduced sparingly elsewhere, including on Atlantic Slope north to Massachusetts, USA Ref. 86798 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
