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| A photo of alligator gars caught at Kanyakumari |
November 12, 2015, NewsCrunch
Actress and budding Congress politician Nagma tweeted two photos of alligator gars, popularly known as crocodile fish on Thursday.
She said the creature, which has the body of a fish and the head of a crocodile, had been caught at a lake in Kanyakumari district.
Alligator gars evoke terror as they are sometimes confused for crocodiles. A fresh water species, it can grow up to 10 feet weighing up to 140 kg.
Actress and budding Congress politician Nagma tweeted two photos of alligator gars, popularly known as crocodile fish on Thursday.
She said the creature, which has the body of a fish and the head of a crocodile, had been caught at a lake in Kanyakumari district.
Alligator gars evoke terror as they are sometimes confused for crocodiles. A fresh water species, it can grow up to 10 feet weighing up to 140 kg.
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| A photo of alligator gars caught at Kanyakumari |
They are described as "living fossils" as they have retained several morphological characters of their earliest ancestors and can breathe in both air and water.
Though mostly found in North America, they have been spotted in lakes as far away as Hong Kong andTurkmenistan . They seem to have been spotted in Kanyakumari for the first time.
Alligator gars are also reared in aquariums as decorative fish. They can be bought on Olx India for a few thousand rupees. As the fish grow in size many fish keepers are known to dump them in nearby water bodies.
Though mostly found in North America, they have been spotted in lakes as far away as Hong Kong and
Alligator gars are also reared in aquariums as decorative fish. They can be bought on Olx India for a few thousand rupees. As the fish grow in size many fish keepers are known to dump them in nearby water bodies.
A rarespecies of fish was caught in a lake atKanniyakumari district in TN wth head of a crocodile n body like a fish pic.twitter.com/iWzbAIRjAF— Nagma Morarji (@nagma_morarji) November 12, 2015