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26 Cards in this Set
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chondricthyes |
class, cartilaginous fishes, sharks, rays and skates as well as chimaera |
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holocephali |
subclass, under elasmobranchii, chimaera, one gill opening |
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elasmobranchii |
subclass, includes ratfish as well as sharks, skates and rays |
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neoselachii |
subclass, under elasmobranchii, includes sharks, skates and rays |
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chimaeriformes |
order, under holocephali, three families of chimaeras |
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batoidea |
order, under neosalachii, skates and rays |
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squalomorpha |
order, under neosalachii, angel shark and deep sea sharks, not monophyletic |
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galeomorpha |
order, under neosalachii, includes typical sharks |
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osteichthyes |
clade, boney fishes, includes all animals after boney fishes as well |
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sarcopterygii |
class, lobe-finned fishes, fleshy muscular lobed fins, have forearm with precursor to humerus, precursor of tetrapods |
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actinistia |
subclass, fin webs that originate from elongated muscular bases-a fleshy ray fin, rostral organ |
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dipnoi |
subclass, lungfish-lack of articulated tooth-bearing premaxillary and maxillary bones, fusion of palatoquadrate to undivided cranium |
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actinopterygii |
class, ray finned fishes |
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polypteriformes |
order, reedfish and bichirs, paired lungs, elongate forms |
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acipenseriformes |
order, sturgeons and paddlefish, scales reduced, elongate forms, mainly cartilaginous endoskeleton |
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lepisosteiformes |
order, heterocercal fin, ganoid scalesm long snout with many teeth, gar |
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amiiformes |
short hetero fin, swim bladder capable of respiratory function, cycloid scales, bowfin |
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teleosti |
infraclass, cycloid or ctenoid scales, homo fin with hypurals and epurals, maxilla without teeth, vertebral centra well oscified, bony fish |
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osteoglosomorpha |
superoder, mostly tropical, unique jaw structure-bony apparatus attached to hyoid |
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elopomorpha |
superorder, leptocephalus larvae, tarpon, ladyfish, bonefish, eels |
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clupeomorpha |
superorder, specialized mouth and gill straining apparatus for feeding on small plankton-filter feeder of sorts, herrings, shad, anchovies |
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euteleostei |
clade that includes 90% of living vertebrates |
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ostariophysi |
superorder, weberian apparatus, 20-30% of all fish species, 80% all freshwater species, piranhas, neon tetra, carps, minnows, catfish, electric knifefishes |
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acanthopterygii |
superorder of bony fishes in class actinopterygii, ray finned fishes |
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atherinomorphes |
clade, silversides, grunions, flying fishes, halfbeaks, cypridonts |
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perciformes |
order, sushi fish, most coral reef fish |