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Echinodermata

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Starfish

Seastars

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What makes a chordate?

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Notochord
Dorsal nerve cord
Snail tail
Pharyngeal slits

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Cephalochordates

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Lancelets, small
Retain chordate synapomorphies through out life
Filter feeders

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Urochordates- Tunicates

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Sea squirts 
Adult sessile
Colonial
Filter feeds
(Lose form as adult )
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Craniates

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Chordates with head

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Myxini

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Hagfishes
Bottom scavengers
Cartilaginous skeleton from notochord but no vertebrate
Jawless

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Myxini

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Hag fishes 
No jaws
Unique defender
Adults can change sex 
Slime defense
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Vertebrates

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Craniates with a backbone

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Petromyzontida-lempreys

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Oldest line of vertebrates
Jawless, parasitic
Cartilaginous vertebra surrounding notochord

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Gnathostomes

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Jaw mouths

Evolved from skeletal arches that supported pharyngeal slits

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Chondrichthyans

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Rays, skates, sharks, chimaeras

Finned fishes with cartilaginous skeletons

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Chondrichthyans

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Internal fertilization
Oviparous - egg hatch outside mothers body
Ovoviviparous- embryo develops in uterus; nourished by egg yolk
Viviparous- embryo develops in uterus; nourished in placenta from mothers blood

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13
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Skates and rays

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Live on the ocean floor and feed on animals in the sediments
Chimeras live in deep sea cold waters

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Osteichthyans

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Most have bony Endoskeleton
Fishes
Ray-finned
Lobe-finned

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Actinopterygii- ray finned fishes

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  • recognizable fish

- fins supported by long flexible rays

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Ray finned fishes

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Feed on most foods
Filter plankton , corals, algae

Exhibit complex behaviors
Schools, build best, choose mates, care for young

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Lobe finned fishes (sarcopterygii)

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Muscular fins
( walk under water)
Three lineages include coelacanths, lungfishes, tetrapods

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Harmful to fish

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Chemical fishing
Dynamite/ Blast fishing
Ghost fishing
By catch

19
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ChordateS

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Bilateral
All vertebrates
(Urochordates & cephalochordates)
Invertebrate

20
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Actinoptergii

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Ray finned

Bony skeletons

21
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Actinista

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Coelacanths

Ancient lineage of aquatic lobe fins still surviving in Indian Ocean

22
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Dipnoi

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Lung fishes
Freshwater lobe-find with both lungs and gills
Sister group of tetrapods