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fish are ______ blooded


_______ chambered heart


________ circulatory system


_______ for respiration


Integument covered with ______


______ _______ for sensory reception


______ secreted for protection from infection


Paired _________ modified as ______


cold


two


closed


gills


scales


lateral line


mucus


appendages, fins

Class Agnatha: The _______ _______

Jawless Fishes

Not all lampreys are _________

parasitic

Lampreys spawn in _______ ________

freshwater streams

the larval forms of lampreys are called _________

ammocoetes

Class Chondrichthyes - __________ ________

Cartilaginous fishes

what are example of class chondrichthyes?

sharks, skates, and rays

Holocephali: The _______

Chimaeras

Class Chondrichthyes evolved from ______ _______

Bony Fishes

Class Chondrichthyes:


_________ scales


____________ tails


gills located under ______ ______


________: Nose of Shark

placoid


heterocercal


gill slits


rostrum

Class Chondrichthyes:


_________ of Lorenzini


_________ _______ system containing special sense organs called _________

Ampullae


Lateral line


neuromasts

Sharks have no ______ ________ and maintain neutral buoyancy with ______ known as ______ produced in their _________

swim bladder


oil, squalene


liver

All sharks have ________ _________ with males inserting _______ into the cloaca of the female

internal fertilization


claspers

Sharks don't reach sexual maturity until about the age of _________

15-35

eggs are laid almost immediately after fertilization and are nourished by the yolk

oviparous

eggs are retained in the oviduct after fertilization and are still nourished by the yolk

ovoviviparous

young are born live from a placental LIKE attachment and are nourished from maternal bloodstream

viviparous

More than ______ of all chondrichthyans are _______. There are ______ species altogether of sharks, skates, and rays.

half, rays


850

Rays are __________, while skates are __________

viviparous


oviparous

odd looking fishes with only 31 species left in the world

the chimaeras

chimaeras have characteristics of both _______ fishes and __________ fishes, but are classified with the latter

bon and cartilaginous

bony fishes- Class ____________

Osteichthyes

subclass of the Class Osteichthyes that are freshly finned lungfishes and the lobe finned Coelacanth

Subclass Sacropterygii

These fishes have a _______ tail structure.



__________ are found only in the following continents and are the only _____ species.

diphycercal



Lungfishes


6

The ________, a ___ ______ fish, was thought to have been extinct for over _______ million years. In 1938, one was caught off the coast of __________

coelacanth, lobe finned


70


Madagascar

Sublass Actinopterygii- ________ ________ fishes

Ray finned

Actinopterygii is the most ________ of all fishes

numerous

what are the two groups exist in the Subclass Actinopterygii?

ancient bony fishes and


modern bony fishes

gars and bowfins, which have _______ scales

ancient bony fishes


ganoid

modern day fishes are also called ________

teleosts

teleosts are the most _________ and ________ of all fishes. They have _______ and ________ scales

numerous and successful


cycloid


ctenoid

a large cartilaginous flap that covers the gills

operculum

most bony fishes have a ______ _______

swim bladder

______ gulp air into their swim bladder through a ___________ ______

trout


pneumatic duct

all other bony fishes with swim bladders have remarkable network of capillaries known as the _______ _______

rete mirabile

Most of the bony fishes have a _________ tail



Fish swim using _________ and ______ muscles

homocercal



trunk and tail

Muscle bands are called __________

myomeres

_________ is more efficient than flying or walking

swimming

________ fins are used for maintaining position or slight movement

pectoral

________ fins used for directional movement

pelvic

__________ flow of the water through the gills maximizes oxygen contact with the bloodstream

countercurrent

Feeding:


the vast majority of fishes are _________

carnivores

The next largest group are ________

herbivores

the smallest group are the ________ _______

filter feeders

Carnivorous _________ feeders have ___________ bacteria or chemicals in special organs or sacs

luminous, bioluminescent

__________ fishes live in fresh water and swim to salt water to reproduce

catadromous

__________ fishes live in salt water and swim to fresh water to reproduce

anadromous

most teleosts, fishes have separate males and females and external fertilzation

dioecious

the vast majority are _________

oviparous

________ is the process of reproducing in fishes

Spawning

_________ actually smell their way home by _______

salmon


odor

a few teleosts have ______ _________, using a modified fin known as a _________

internal fertilization


gonopodium


Live bearing is the most _________ method for fertilzation

efficient