Today, bowfin (Amia calva) are the only remaining species in the order Amiiformes; they are demersal freshwater piscivores, and their range is restricted to freshwater environments in North America, including much of the eastern United States and adjacent southern Canada from the St. Lawrence River and Lake Champlain drainage of southern ...

Native Range: Eastern North America. St.

The bowfin (Amia calva) is a bony fish, native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique. It is regarded as a relict, being one of only two surviving species of the Halecomorphi, a group of fish that first appeared during the Early Triassic, around 250 million years ago.

Amia, commonly called bowfin, is a genus of ray-finned fish related to gars in the infraclass Holostei. They are regarded as taxonomic relicts, being the sole surviving species of the order Amiiformes and clade Halecomorphi, which dates from …

Bowfin are found as far north as the upper St. Lawrence River in Que­bec and On­tario, and as far south as South­ern Texas and Florida. They can be found from the east coast and west into South Dakota, Ne­braska, Mis­souri, Kansas, and Cen­tral Ok­la­homa (Scott and Cross­man, 1973).

The Amiidae are a family of basal ray-finned fishes. The bowfin and the eyespot bowfin (Amia ocellicauda) are the only two species to survive today, although additional species in all four subfamilies of Amiidae are known from Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Eocene fossils. [1] Bowfins are now found throughout eastern North America, typically in slow-moving backwaters, canals, and ox-bow lakes. When ...

Geographic range: Bowfins live only in eastern North America. Their range includes the Saint Lawrence River system, which extends from the eastern part of the United States and Canada to the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi River system, …

2021年4月16日 · Bowfin (Amia calva) are prehistoric fish with a native range spanning much of eastern North America. This species is the only living representative of the family Amiidae, which dates back to the Jurassic Period (199.6 to 145.5 million years ago)!

Bowfin range from the St. Lawrence and Champlain drainages, through the Great Lakes drainage (except Lake Superior), and down to the Mississippi River drainage into the Gulf Coast and along the coast to Texas. They can also be found along the Atlantic Slope drainages from southern Pennsylvania to Florida. Vermont populations can be found in Lake Champlain and in the lower reaches of some of ...

2024年5月27日 · The bowfin fish occupies an expansive geographic range across America, spanning from the northern Great Lakes region to the southern reaches of the Gulf of Mexico.