![An example at the Aquazoo Löbbecke-Museum Düsseldorf](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Kaimanfische_%28Lepisosteus%29.jpg/360px-Kaimanfische_%28Lepisosteus%29.jpg)
In American English, the name gar (or garpike) is strictly applied to members of the Lepisosteidae, a family including seven living species of fish in two genera that inhabit fresh, brackish, and occasionally marine, waters of eastern North America, Central America, and the Caribbean islands.