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Pikes and Allied Mudminnows
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Pikes and Allied Mudminnows

Esocidae

Esox is a genus of freshwater fish, the only living genus in the family Esocidae—the esocids which were endemic to North America and Eurasia during the Paleogene through present.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 11 known species

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51369.