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Fish |
refers to one or more individuals of the same species |
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Fishes |
More than one species |
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Do fish have vertebrae with gills or not? |
Yes they do |
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How many living species of fish? |
More than 28,000 |
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What dominate the world's seas, lakes, and oceans? |
Fish |
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Refer to an animal whose body temperature adjusts depends on the external environment |
Polkimotmeria |
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Hard plate that covers the gills of bony fish |
Operculum |
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Terms for an animal that gains heat through the environment |
Ectotherm |
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Term for organisms in which the babies develop from an egg inside the mother and are born later |
Oviviuiparous |
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The body shape of a shark |
Fusiform |
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Body shape of fish |
Streamlinged |
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What senses do sharks from various distances? |
Far away= lateral line and olfactory organs Up close= vision Attacking= bioelectronics |
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A group of extinct armored fish |
Placoderms |
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Modified pelvic find on make cartilaginous fish |
Claspers |
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Openings behind the eyes of rays used to bring in water for respiration |
Spiracles |
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Parasitic fish that has devastated many Great Lakes Fisheries |
Sea Lampreys |
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Term for organisms in which the babies are born alive from their mother |
Viviparous |
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Receptor organs which make up the literal line |
Neuromasts |
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Colorful, venomous fish species that has invaded the Atlantic |
Lionfish |
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Time period known as the Age of Fishes |
Devonian |
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Sharks have this type of scales |
Placola |
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Larges species of ray |
Manta |
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Cartilaginous fish store these in their liver to aid in buoyancy |
Lipids |
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Fish have a heart with this many Chambers |
2 |
